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The 2018 IEEE International Congress on Cybermatics

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2018)

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications

(GreenCom-2018)

The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing

(CPSCom-2018)

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData-2018)

The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain-2018)

The 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology

(CIT-2018)

July 30 – August 3, 2018

Halifax, Canada

Conference Program and Information Booklet

Organized by

St. Francis Xavier University, IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section, and Dalhousie University

Sponsored by

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE System, Man, and Cybermatics Society

IEEE Technical Commitee on Scalable Computing, IEEE Technical Commitee on Cybermatics

Registration Desk, Name Badges and Conference Venue Floor Map Page 1

Presentation Guidelines

Program Overview Page 3

Welcome Message from the Congress Chairs Page 7

Congress Keynotes Page 8

Summit Keynotes Overview Page 18

IEEE Blockchain Summit Keynotes Page 19

IEEE Cybermatics Summit Keynotes Page 21

IEEE Standards Summit Page 24

Sessions of iThings 2018 Page 25

Sessions of GreenCom 2018 Page 29

Sessions of CPSCom 2018 Page 34

Sessions of SmartData 2018 Page 39

Sessions of Blockchain 2018 Page 43

Sessions of CIT 2018 Page 51

Organizing Committees of Cybermatics 2018 Page 55

Organizing Committees of iThings 2018 Page 56

Organizing Committees of GreenCom 2018 Page 57

Organizing Committees of CPSCom 2018 Page 58

Organizing Committees of SmartData 2018 Page 59

Organizing Committees of Blockchain 2018 Page 60

Organizing Committees of CIT 2018 Page 61

Conference Venue Page 62

Travel Guide Page 63

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Registration Desk

The Registration Desk will be open to assist you at the following times:

• Monday, July 30, 2018, 10:00am – 4:00pm

• Tuesday, July 31, 2018, 8:00am – 4:00pm

• Wednesday, August 01, 2018, 8:00am – 4:00pm

• Thursday, August 02, 2018, 8:00am – 4:00pm

Name Badges and Meal Tickets

All delegates, sponsors and speakers of the IEEE iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT-2018 and associated workshops will be provided with a name badge, to be collected upon registration. This badge must be worn at all times as it is your official pass to all technical sessions of the conferences and morning and

afternoon teas. There are 7 different meal tickets for the welcome reception (three tickets) on July 31, 3 lunches on July 31,

August 01 and 02, and banquet on August 01, respectively.

Conference Venue Floor Map

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Presentation Guidelines

Language The presentation language of the IEEE iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT-2018 and

associated workshops is English.

Checking In Session Chairs are requested to register at least 2 hours before their session, or as soon as the Registration Desk is open.

Setting Up You are required to arrive at the room (in which you will deliver your talk) 20 minutes before the commencement of the session. Upon arrival please confirm your attendance with the Session Chair and familiarize yourself with the venue.

Please bring with you a single paragraph summary, including your name (as you would like to be introduced), affiliation and research interests (maximum 100 words). Please present this to the session Session Chair upon

arrval, for use for introductory purposes, prior to your talk. Upon arrival, please copy your slides file to the presentation computer. If you plan to use your own equipment,

please ensure it is ready to go prior to the session commencing, since there is very little time between presentations. If you have requested optional equipment, ensure that is in the room. In the larger conference rooms please, make sure you familiarise yourself with the audio system. For all assistance, please speak to the

Session Chair.

Timing Please ensure your check the program for the exact time of your session and where your paper falls within the session.

It is recommended that all IEEE iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT-2018 paper presentations use 20 minutes presentation time including 5 minutes question time . However, the Session

Chairs will determine the exact presentation time for each paper, based on the number of presentations in each session. The Session Chairs will ensure that you do not over-run the time allocated.

Please keep strictly to this time guideline

Posters One A1-size poster slot (portrait style) will be provided for each presenter.

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IEEE iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData/Blockchain/CIT-2018

Program Overview

Monday July 30, 2018

Meeting Room Room 101 Room 102 Room 103 Room 104 Room 106 Room 107 Room 108 Room 109

10:00-16:00 Registration (Atrium)

13:30-14:50

iThings-1: IoT Systems and

Applications I

Blockchain-M1:

Smart Contract I

Blockchain-S1: Blockchain

Applications I

CPSCom-1: Technologies &

Applications I

CIT-1: Software CPSCom-3: Cyber Physical

Systems and

Edge Computing

GreenCom 1: Energy Efficient

Networking and

Communications

Blockchain:

Workshop

14:50-15:50 iThings-2: IoT Systems and

Applications II

Blockchain-M2: Smart Contract

II


Applications II

CPSCom-2: Networks &

Communications

CIT-2: Wireless Networks and

Communications I

CPSCom-4: Technologies &

Applications II

Blockchain:

Workshop

15:50-16:05 Coffee Break (Atrium)

16:05-17:25

iThings-3: IoT Services and

Intelligence I

Blockchain-M3: IoT and

Blockchain I


Applications III

CPSCom-5: Cloud

Manufacturing

and Industrial

IoT I

CIT-3: Systems GreenCom 2: Green Society

Applications

Blockchain:

Workshop

17:25-18:25

iThings-4: Special Session on Securing IoT

Networks

Blockchain-M4: IoT and

Blockchain II

Blockchain-S4: Blockchain and

Bitcoin

CPSCom-6: Cloud

Manufacturing and Industrial

IoT II

CIT-4: Security,

Privacy and Trust

Blockchain:

Workshop

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Tuesday July 31, 2018

Meeting Room Room C2-C3-C4


09:00-09:15 Opening Ceremony

09:15-10:05 Keynote: M. Jamal Deen (Chaired by Ljiljana Trajkovic)

10:05-10:55 Keynote: Witold Pedrycz (Chaired by Qiang Ye)


11.10-12.00 Keynote: Wenjing Lou (Chaired by Antonio Puliafito)

12:30-13:30 Lunch (Room C1)


13:30-14:50 iThings-5: IoT Services and

Intelligence II

Blockchain-M5: Blockchain

Management I


Enforcement

CPSCom-7: Systems & Design

I

CIT-5: Image

Processing

SmartData-1: Smart Data

Applications I

GreenCom-3: Energy

Harvesting Communications

and Networks

Blockchain S6: Blockchain

Platform

14:50-15:50

iThings-6: Special Session

on IoT Solutions for Smart

Healthcare


Management II

Blockchain-S7:

Smart Contract I

CPSCom-8:

Systems & Design II

CIT-6: Machine

Learning

SmartData-2:

Data Science and Big Data

Infrastructure for

Smart Cities


16:05-17:25 iThings-7: IoT Services and

Intelligence III


Applications I

Blockchain-S8: Smart Contract

II

CPSCom-9:

Data & Services I

CIT-7: Pattern

Recognition


Applications II

GreenCom-4: Seucity and

Privacy-

Preserving in Green

Communications

GreenCom

(Workshop): Networked

Vehicles for

Intelligent Transportation

and Smart Grid

17:25-18:25

iThings-8: IoT Networks and

Communications


Applications II

Blockchain-S9: Blockchain and

IoT

CPSCom-10:

Data & Services II

CIT-8: Internet

of Things


Processing and Analytics

19:30-21:00 Reception (Room C1)

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Wednesday August 1, 2018



09:00-09:50 Keynote: Ljiljana Trajkovic (Chaired by Carson K. Leung)

09:50-10:40 Keynote: Max Qing Hu Meng (Chaired by Jun Cai)


10:55-11:45 Keynote: Yi Pan (Chaired by Dusit Niyato)

12:30-13:30 Lunch (Room C1)

13:30-15:00 IEEE Blockchain Summit

15:00-16:30 IEEE Cybermatics Summit


16:45-18:30 IEEE Standards Summit

19:30-21:00 Conference Banquet (Room C1)

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Thursday August 2, 2018



09:00-09:50 Keynote: Vincenzo Piuri (Chaired by Mianxiong Dong)

09:50-10:40 Keynote: Weihua Zhuang (Chaired by Lian Zhao)


10:55-11:45 Keynote: Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Chaired by M. Jamal Deen)

12:30-13:30 Lunch (Room C1)


13:30-14:50

iThings-9: IoT Enabling

Technologies

Blockchain-M9: Blockchain Threat and

Enhancement I


Protocol Design

Blockchain-

Poster

CIT-9: Wireless Networks and

Communications

II

SmartData-5: Graph Big

Database with Smart

Applications I

GreenCom-5: Optimization

and Analysis in

Green

Communications

Blockchain

Special Session

14:50-15:50

Blockchain-M10:

Blockchain Threat and

Enhancement II


Privacy

CPSCom-11:

Poster

CIT-10: Future Networks and

Communications

SmartData-6:

Graph Big Database with

Smart

Applications II

Blockchain

Special Session


16:05-17:25

Blockchain-M11:

Blockchain

Security

Blockchain-S12: Blockchain Privacy and

Trust

CPSCom-12:

Poster

CIT-11: Emerging

Applications


Applications III

GreenCom-6: Green

Technologies for

5G

17:25-18:25

Blockchain-M12:

Blockchain

Design


Trust

Management

CPSCom-13:

Poster

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Welcome Message from the Congress Chairs Advances in computers, information and networks, not only offer us novel services, but also are bringing about a digital cyberspace and a further digital cyber world. Numerous digital things or cyber entities will

be generated and will reside in the cyber world, and countless real things in conventional physical, social and mental worlds will possess some cyber mappings or cyber components, to have a cyber existence. Cyberization is an emerging trend forming the new cyber world and reforming these conventional worlds

towards cyber-enabled hyper worlds. Cybermatics is to build systematic knowledge about new phenomena, behaviors, properties and practices in the cyberspace, cyberization and cyber -enabled hyper worlds.

The IEEE Cybermatics Congress originated from the 2013 World Cybermatics Congress in Beijing.

Cybermatics 2018 in Halifax is the continuation after the success of Cybermatics 2017 in Exeter, Cybermatics 2016 in Chengdu, Cybermatics 2015 in Sydney, and Cybermatics 2014 in Taipei. IEEE Cybermatics 2018 aims to provide a high-profile platform for researchers and engineers to exchange and

explore state-of-art innovations in cyber technology and their applications in physical, social and mental worlds.

The congress consists of the following 6 co-located conferences:

·The 4th IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData 2018)

·The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2018)

·The 11th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2018)

·The 14th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2018)

·The 18th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2018)

·The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain 2018)

An international conference can be organized by supports and great voluntary efforts of many people and organizations and our main responsibility is to coordinate the various tasks carried out with other willing and talented volunteers. We would like to thank all general chairs of the above 6 conferences for the very

successful organization and all program chairs for making the excellent 3 and half days' technical program. We also would like to express our appreciation for the excellent local team from St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University for the perfect local arrangements and the detailed registration

work. We also would like to take the opportunity to thank all the members of the organizing committee, the publicity chairs and technical program committee as well as all authors who submitted papers and reviewers who reviewed a number of papers.

We deeply appreciate for our 9 distinguished congress keynote speakers as well as three summits'

keynotes for sharing with us their latest research advances.

Last but least, the support from IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE CS Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Cybermatics is highly appreciated.

We hope you find the congress a stimulating and exciting forum and you will also enjoy the beautiful city

of Halifax, Canada.

Jason Gu, Professor, FCAE, FEIC IEEE Canada President-elect, 2018-2019 IEEE Canada President, 2020-2021

Dalhousie University, Canada Congress General Chair

Laurence T. Yang, Professor, FCAE

Chair, IEEE CS TC on Scalable Computing Chair, IEEE SMC TC on Cybermatics St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Congress Steering Chair

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Congress Keynotes Overview

Keynote: M. Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada

Smart Sensors, IoT and Data Analytics - Research, Trends and Opportunities

Keynote: Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada and Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

From Data to Information Granules: A Data Science Perspective

Keynote: Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada

Network Slicing for Service Provisioning in 5G Communication Systems

Keynote: Max Qing Hu Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

AI and Robotics: Scenario Intelligence

Keynote: Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Machine Learning for Complex Networks

Keynote: Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Computational Intelligence for Dependable and Resilient Cloud Computing

Keynote: Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA

Deep Learning for Big Data Applications - Challenges and Future Directions

Keynote: Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Blockchain: Benefits, Limitations, and a Use Case on Enforcing Data Privacy

Keynote: Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan

Smart Healthcare

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Keynote: Smart Sensors, IoT and Data Analytics - Research, Trends and Opportunities

M. Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada

About the Keynote Speaker Prof. M. Jamal Deen is Distinguished University Professor, Senior Canada Research Chair in

Information Technology, and Director of the Micro- and Nano-Systems Laboratory,

McMaster University. His current research interests are nanoelectronics, optoelectronics,

nanotechnology, data analytics and their emerg ing applications to health and environmental

sciences. Dr. Deen’s research record includes more than 560 peer-rev iewed articles (about

20% are invited and with an h -index of 57), two textbooks on “Silicon Photonics -

Fundamentals and Devices” and” Fiber Optic Communications: Fundamentals and

Applications”, 12 awarded patents of which 6 were extensively used in industry, and 18 best

paper/poster/presentation awards. Over his career, he has won more than fifty -five awards and honors.

As an undergraduate student at the University of Guyana, Dr. Deen was the top ranked mathematics and physics

student and the second ranked student at the university, winning the Chancellor’s gold medal and the Irving Adler

prize. As a graduate student, he was a Fulbright-Laspau Scholar and an American Vacuum Society Scholar. He is a

Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Electron Device Society for more than a decade. His awards and honors include

the Callinan Award as well as the Electronics and Photonics Award from the Electrochemical Society; a Humboldt

Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the Eadie Medal from the Royal Society of Canada;

McNaughton Gold Medal (highest award for engineers), the Fessenden Medal and the Ham Education Medal, all

from IEEE Canada IEEE Canada In addition, he was awarded the four honorary doctorate degrees in recognition of

his exceptional research and scholarly accomplishments, professionalism and service. Dr. Deen has also been

elected Fellow status in ten national academies and professional societies including The Royal Society of Canada -

The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences (the highest honor for academics, scholars and artists in Canada),

IEEE, APS (American Physical Society) and ECS (Electrochemical Society). He served as the elected President of

the Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Canada in 2015-2017.

Summary: Several of the grand challenges in engineering for current and future societal needs require smart sensors and

possibly Internet-of-Things (IoTs). In the health area, we will discuss some major healthcare issues related to aging

and several examples of smart sensor systems. We will discuss the use of sensor systems to measure your walking

signals and sleep quality, and their customization to an individual’s needs. Smart sensors are also used for a living

diary and in a smart home server that functions as the “brain” of a s mart medical home. In addit ion, we will discuss

what are the trends and opportunities in smart sensors and IoTs. This will include various high - impact applications

of smart sensors, the pervasiveness of smart phones and their feasible applicat ions in sensing and monitoring, what

are some healthcare market drivers, the growing demand for personal health and wellness monitoring systems, IoTs,

and wearable technologies. The presentation will include the use of data analytics to provide important customizable

informat ion to the users based on data collected from a variety of sensors and IoT devices. Finally, we will discuss

the applications of smart sensors, IoT and data analytics, and what are some important research issues in sensors,

home networks, autonomic systems and healthcare in the context of a futuristic smart medical home.

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Keynote: From Data to Information Granules: A Data Science Perspective

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada and Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

About the Keynote Speaker

Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Fellow, 1998) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in

Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of

the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. In 2009 Dr. Pedrycz was elected a foreign

member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal

Society of Canada. Witold Pedrycz has been a member of numerous program committees of

IEEE conferences in the area of fuzzy sets and neurocomputing. In 2007 he received a

prestigious Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He

is a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize fo r Soft

Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, and a Fuzzy Pioneer Award fro m the

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular Computing. He has

published numerous papers in this area. He is also an author of 17 research monographs. He is an Editor-in-Chief of

Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Int. J. of

Granular Computing (Springer). He serves on an Advisory Board of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and is a

member of a number of editorial boards of international journals.

Summary: To capture the essence of data, facilitate building their essential descriptors and reveal key relat ionships

(associations), we advocate a need for transforming data into more abstract constructs - in formation granules. In this

setting, information granules are regarded as conceptually sound knowledge tidbits over which various models could

be developed. The paradigm shift implied by the engagement of in formation granules becomes manifested in several

tangible ways including (i) a stronger dependence on data when building structure-free and versatile models spanned

over selected numeric or granular representatives of experimental data, (ii) emergence of models at various levels of

abstraction being promoted by the specificity/generality of informat ion granules, and (iii) building a collection of

individual local models and supporting their efficient aggregation and consensus building.

A framework of Granular Computing along with a diversity of its formal settings offers a critically needed

conceptual and algorithmic environment. A suitable perspective built with the aid of in formation granules is

advantageous in realizing a suitable level of abstraction. It also becomes instrumental when forming sound a nd

pragmatic problem-oriented and user-oriented tradeoffs among precision of results, their easiness of interpretation,

value, and stability.

The functional scheme advocated in this talk is outlined as follows: data -> numeric prototypes -> granular

prototypes -> granular models. Numeric prototypes are formed through invoking clustering algorithms, which quite

commonly gives rise to a co llect ion of the representatives. Two ways of generalizat ion of prototypes are considered:

(i) symbolic and (ii) granular. In the symbolic generalization, one moves away from the numeric values of the

prototypes and regards them as sequences of integer indexes (labels). A long this line, developed are concepts of

(symbolic) stability and (symbolic) resemblance of data structures. The second generalizat ion motivates the buildup

of granular prototypes, which arise as a direct consequence for a more comprehensive representation of the data.

This entails that informat ion granules (including their level of abstraction), have to be p rudently formed to achieve

the required quality of the granular model. Subsequently two modes of aggregation of models (sources of knowledge)

such as passive and active aggregation are also discussed.

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Keynote: Network Slicing for Service Provisioning in 5G Communication Systems

Weihua Zhuang, University of Waterloo, Canada


Dr. Weihua Zhuang has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

University of Waterloo, Canada, since 1993, where she is a Professor and a Tier I Canada

Research Chair in Wireless Communication Networks. She is the recipient of 2017 Technical

Recognition Award from IEEE Commun ications Society Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks

Technical Committee, one of 2017 ten N2Women (Stars in Computer Networking and

Communicat ions), and a co-recip ient of several best paper awards from IEEE conferences. Dr.

Zhuang was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2007-2013),

Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair of IEEE VTC Fall 2017 and Fall 2016, and the Technical

Program Symposia Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2011. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal

Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. Dr. Zhuang is

an elected member in the Board of Governors and VP Publications of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

Summary: The fifth generation (5G) communication network is expected to accommodate a wide range of emerg ing services

with diverse service quality requirements. The network will integrate a variety of network resources and

technologies to support high transmission rate and to enhance quality of experience to mobile users. The traditional

one-size-fits-all network architecture cannot efficiently meet the needs of different services, due to the poor

scalability, limited adaptability, and inflexib ility. Network function virtualizat ion (NFV) over software defined

networking (SDN) technology is a promising approach for an agile and flexib le 5G networking infrastructure. In this

presentation, we will provide an overview of several recent studies for 5G networks, including dynamic rad io

resource slicing in wireless network virtualization, computing and transmission resource allocation in the core

network, and how to establish a customized virtual network topology for multicast services. We will conclude this

presentation with a brief discussion of some open research topics.

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Keynote: AI and Robotics: Scenario Intelligence Max Qing Hu Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China


Max Q.-H. Meng received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from

the University of Victoria, Canada, in 1992. He joined the Chinese University of Hong

Kong in 2001 and is currently Professor and Chairman of Department of Electronic

Engineering. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the

University of A lberta in Canada, serving as the Director of the Advanced Robotics and

Teleoperation Lab and holding the positions of Assistant Professor (1994), Associate

Professor (1998), and Professor (2000), respectively. He is affiliated with the State Key

Laboratory of Robotics and Systems at Harbin Institute of Technology as a Distinguished

Chair Professor via the One Thousand Talent Program and the Honorary Dean of the

School of Control Science and Engineering at Shandong University, in China. His research

interests include robotics, perception, intelligent robots and agents, and medical robotics and devices. He has

published some 600 journal and conference papers and led more than 50 funded research projects to completion as

PI. He has served as an editor of several journals and General and Program Chair of many conferences including

General Chair o f IROS 2005 and General Chair of ICRA 2021 to be held in Xi’an, China. He is an elected member

of the Admin istrative Committee (AdCom) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He is a recipient of the

IEEE Millennium Medal, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of HKIE, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of

Engineering.

Summary: Robotics and artificial intelligence are attracting more and more public attentions and research efforts lately. Recent

revolutionary development and drastic progress in robotic technology and artificial intelligence in terms of both

hardware capability and software power have made it possible for researchers to redefine what robotics and artificial

intelligence can achieve with their joint force in accomplishing complicated human tasks, exploring new

applications, and expanding envelops of possibilities. We will use our own research case studies to initiate

discussions on how the artificial intelligence shall be combined with or integrated in robotics to tackle tasks that

could not be accomplished to our satisfaction. Personal thoughts and outlook on future research efforts and

potentials in robotics and artificial intelligence will be outlined to conclude the talk.

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Keynote: Machine Learning for Complex Networks Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada


Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dip l. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia,

in 1974, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from

Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree

in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles, in 1986.

She is currently a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser

University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. From 1995 to 1997, she was a National

Science Foundation (NSF) Visiting Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer

Sciences Department, University of Californ ia, Berkeley. She was a Research Scientist a t

Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ, from 1990 to 1997, and a Member of the

Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1990.

Her research interests include h igh-performance communication networks, control of communicat ion systems,

computer-aided circuit analysis and design, and theory of nonlinear circuits and dynamical systems.

Dr. Trajkovic serves as IEEE Division X Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect (2018), IEEE Division X Delegate/Director

(2019–2020). She serves as Senior Past President (2018–2019) of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society

and served as Junior Past President (2016–2017), President (2014–2015), President-Elect (2013), Vice President

Publications (2012–2013, 2010–2011), Vice President Long-Range Planning and Finance (2008–2009), and a

Member at Large of its Board of Governors (2004–2006). She served as 2007 President of the IEEE Circu its and

Systems Society. She was a member o f the Board of Governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2001–

2003, 2004–2005). She is Chair of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria

Sections. She was Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circu its and Systems (1998). She is

General Co-Chair of SMC 2020 and SMC 2018 Workshop on BMI Systems and served as General Co -Chair of

SMC 2016 and HPSR 2014, Special Sessions Co-Chair of SMC 2017, Technical Program Chair of SMC 2017 and

SMC 2016 Workshops on BMI Systems, Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS 2005, and Technical Program

Chair and Vice General Co-Chair of ISCAS 2004. She served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on

Circuits and Systems (Part I) (2004–2005, 1993–1995), the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part II)

(2018–, 1999–2001, 2002-2003), and the IEEE Circu its and Systems Magazine (2001–2003). She was a

Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circu its and Systems Society (2010–2011, 2002–2003). She is a Professional

Member of IEEE-HKN and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Summary: Collection and analysis of data from deployed networks is essential for understanding modern networks. Traffic

traces collected from various deployed communicat ion networks and the Internet have been used to characterize and

model network traffic, analyze Internet topologies, and classify network anomalies. Data min ing and statistical

analysis of network data are often employed to determine traffic loads, analyze patterns of users' behavior, and

predict future network traffic. Spectral graph theory has been applied to analyze various topologies of complex

networks and capture historical t rends in their development. Recent machine learn ing techniques have proved

valuable for predicting anomalous traffic behavior and for classifying anomalies in complex networks. Further

applications of these tools will help improve our understanding of the underlying mechanisms that govern the

behavior of complex networks such as the Internet, social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Internet blogs,

forums, and websites), power grids, gene regulatory networks, neuronal systems, food webs, social systems, and

networks emanating from augmented and virtual reality platforms. They will also help improve performance of

these networks and enhance their security.

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Keynote: Computational Intelligence for Dependable and Resilient Cloud Computing

Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy


Professor Vincenzo Piuri has received his Ph.D. in computer engineering at Politecnico di

Milano, Italy (1989). He has been Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Italy and

Visit ing Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at George Mason University, USA.

He is Fu ll Professor in computer engineering at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

(since 2000).

His main research interests are: intelligent systems, cloud computing, fault tolerance, etc.

Original results have been published in more than 400 papers in international journals,

proceedings of international conferences, books, and book chapters. He is Fellow of th e IEEE,

Distinguished Scientist of ACM, and Senior Member of INNS. He has been IEEE Past Vice President for Technical

Activities (2016), IEEE Vice President for Technical Activit ies (2015), IEEE Director, President of the IEEE

Computational Intelligence Society, Vice President for Education of the IEEE Biometrics Council, Vice President

for Publicat ions of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the IEEE Systems Council, and Vice

President for Membership of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is Ed itor-in-Chief of the IEEE

Systems Journal (2013-19) and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and the IEEE Transactions

on Cloud Computing and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and the IE EE

Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

He received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002) for the contributions to

the advancement of theory and practice of computational intelligence in measurement systems a nd industrial

applications. He is Honorary Professor at the Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary, Guangdong University of

Petrochemical Technology, China, the Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, the Muroran Institute of

Technology, Japan, and the Amity University, India.

Summary: Recent years have seen a growing interest among users in the migrat ion of their applicat ions to the Cloud computing

environments. However, due to high complexity, Cloud-based services often experience a large number of failures

and security breaches, and consequently, impose numerous challenges on the dependability and resilience of users’

applications. Unfortunately, current dependability and resilience solutions focus either on the infrastructure itself or

on application analysis but fail to consider the complex inter-dependencies between system components and

application tasks. This aspect is highly crucial especially when Cloud environments are used, as it is increasingly

considered nowadays, in critical applications.

Besides, definit ion of application requirements, allocations of resources to application tasks, and optimizat ion of

global management parameters usually are based either on statistical approaches or on heuristics strategies typical of

operating research. Computational intelligence may give additional opportunities and flexibility in specifying the

requirements especially when they are defined by non-experts and in optimizing the resource allocation and the

global management parameters.

This talk will discuss a user-centric, dependability- and resilience-driven framework that considers deploying and

protecting users’ applications in the Cloud in frastructure so as to min imize their exposure to the vulnerabilit ies in the

network, as well as offering fault tolerance and resilience as a service to the users who need to deploy their

applications in the Cloud. In this scenario, the talk analyzes the opportunities offered by computational intelligence

to specify the characteristics and the requirements of these environments and support their management in the

presence of many local optimization minima.

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Keynote: Deep Learning for Big Data Applications - Challenges and Future Directions

Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA


Yi Pan is currently a Regents’ Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Georgia State

University, USA. He has served as an Associate Dean and Chair of Biology Department

during 2013-2017 and Chair o f Computer Science during 2006-2013. Dr. Pan received his

B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in computer engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in

1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science fro m the University of

Pittsburgh, USA, in 1991. His profile has been featured as a distinguished alumnus in both

Tsinghua Alumni Newsletter and University of Pittsburgh CS Alumni Newsletter. Dr. Pan's

research interests include parallel and cloud computing, wireless networks, and bioinformat ics.

Dr. Pan has published more than 250 journal papers with over 80 papers published in various

IEEE journals. In addit ion, he has published over 150 papers in refereed conferences. He has also co -authored/co-

edited 43 books. His work has been cited more than 8000 times. Dr. Pan has served as an editor-in-chief or editorial

board member fo r 15 journals including 7 IEEE Transactions. He is the recipient of many awards including IEEE

Transactions Best Paper Award, several other conference and journal best paper awards, 4 IBM Faculty Awards, 2

JSPS Senior Invitation Fellowships, IEEE BIBE Outstanding Achievement Award, NSF Research Opportunity

Award, and AFOSR Summer Faculty Research Fellowship. He has organized many international conferences and

delivered keynote speeches at over 60 international conferences around the world.

Summary: Due to improvements in mathemat ical formulas and increasingly powerfu l computers, we can now model many

more layers of virtual neurons (deep neural networks or deep learning) than ever before. Deep learning is now

producing many remarkable recent successes in computer vision, automatic speech recognition, natural language

processing, audio recognition, and medical imaging processing. Although various deep learning architectures and

novel algorithms have been applied to many big data applications, extending deep learning into more complicated

applications such as bioinformatics or medical images will require more conceptual and software breakthroug hs, not

to mention many more advances in processing power. In this talk, I will outline the challenges and problems in deep

learning research. They include design of new architectures, handling high dimensional data, encoding schemes,

mathematical proofs, optimization of hyperparameters, logic and reasoning, result exp lanation and hardware support

for deep learning. Some solutions and preliminary results in these areas will be presented.

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Keynote: Blockchain: Benefits, Limitations, and a Use Case on Enforcing Data Privacy

Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA


Wenjing Lou is the W. C. English Professor of Computer Science at Virgin ia Tech and a

Fellow of the IEEE. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the

University of Florida. Her research interests cover many topics in the cybersecurity field, with

her current research interest focusing on privacy protection techniques in networked

informat ion systems and cross-layer security enhancement in the Internet of Things (IoT)

systems.

Prof. Lou is currently on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure

Computing (TDSC), ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on

Mobile Computing (TMC), and Journal of Computer Security. She is the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE

Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), which is a conference series in IEEE

Communicat ions Society (ComSoc) core conference portfolio and the only ComSoc conference focusing solely on

cybersecurity.

Summary: Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, has drawn widespread attention in recent years . As a popular “secure by

design” technology, Blockchain demonstrates the great potential to enable a wide range of d istributed applications

across a broad spectrum of industries. With a blockchain in place, applicat ions that could previously run only

through a trusted intermediary, can now operate in a fully decentralized fashion while achieving the same security

objectives with the same amount of certainty.

In this talk, we will discuss a few use cases of blockchain and examine its fundamental properties, both desirable

and undesirable. While blockchain promises user anonymity, transaction irreversibility, public verifiability, and

transparency, etc., some of these properties are not guaranteed and they come at a very high price. At the same t ime,

excessive overhead and performance deficits may place a fundamental limit on some security uses. We will also

introduce “PrivacyGuard”, a blockchain-based privacy policy enforcement framework that explores the combination

of blockchain with the trusted execution environment (TEE) such as Intel SGX to empower indiv idual data owners

to define their privacy policy using “smart contract,” track their data usage on the blockchain, and enforce their

policy compliance through a hardware-assisted TEE.

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Keynote: Smart Healthcare Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan


Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Otsuki) is currently a Professor at Keio univers ity, Japan. He received

the B.E., M.E., and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University,

Yokohama, Japan in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively. From 1995 to 2005 he was with

Science University of Tokyo. In 2005 he jo ined Keio University. He is engaged in research

on wireless communicat ions, optical communications, signal processing, and information

theory. Dr. Ohtsuki is a recipient of the 1997 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist,

the 1997 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineering Award , Ericsson Young Scientist

Award 2000, 2002 Funai In formation and Science Award for Young Scientist, IEEE the 1st

Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2001, the 5th International Communication

Foundation (ICF) Research Award, 2011 IEEE SPCE Outstanding Serv ice Award, the 27th

TELECOM System Technology Award, ETRI Journal’s 2012 Best Reviewer Award, and 9th International

Conference on Communications and Networking in China 2014 (CHINACOM ’14) Best Paper Award.

He has published more than 165 journal papers and 380 international conference papers.

He served a Chair o f IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics

Technical Committee. He served a technical editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and an editor

of Elsevier Physical Communications. He is now serving an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular

Technology and an editor of the IEEE Communicat ions Surveys and Tutorials. He has served general-co chair and

symposium co-chair of many conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, SPC, IEEE ICC2011, CTS, IEEE

GCOM2012, SPC, IEEE SPAWC, and IEEE APWCS. He gave tutorials and keynote speech at many international

conferences including IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, and so on. He was a Vice President of Communicat ions Society of

the IEICE, Japan and is the elected President of Communications Society of the IEICE, Japan. He is a senior

member of the IEEE and a fellow of the IEICE.

Summary: With rapid aging society in developed countries particularly Japan, social costs for nursing care and medical

expenses are also rising. Meanwhile, the size of the average family has continued to shrink, which results in the

increase of elderly people liv ing alone. Smart healthcare is expected to support the aging society where people can

live healthy and peacefully, while reducing the costs for support dramat ically. To realize such a society, smart

technologies are necessary. Smart sensor is one of the s mart technologies where it is expected to collect information

about people and environments while keeping privacy. For instance, monitoring a person living alone is an

important problem in which the use of cameras is not normally permitted or preferred. In this talk I will introduce

smart healthcare and smart sensors that realize it. I will also introduce some of our developed smart sensors based on

wireless communicat ions technologies. I will present some ideas how to securely share personal health data and

conclude.

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Summit Keynotes Overview

IEEE Blockchain Summit Keynotes

Keynote: Sachiko Yoshihama, FSS & Blockchain Solutions, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities

Keynote: F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada

From Network Virtualization to Blockchain Virtualization: Virtualization for Distributed

Ledger Technology (vDLT)

Keynote: Hui Li, Xidian University, China

Blockchain in IoT-Security and Applications

Keynote: Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada

Blockchain Technology and its Application in Financial Industry

Keynote: Jens Grossklags, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Economic and Security Foundations of Cryptocurrency Mining

IEEE Cybermatics Summit Keynotes

Keynote: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Recent Advances and Challenges on Cybermatics

Keynote: Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland

Privacy-Preserving Data Processing with Flexible Access Control

Keynote: Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy

Software Defined Cities: Integrating the Cyber World with the Internet of Things

Keynote: Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada

Challenges in Temporal Network Applications: How to Design Intelligent Algorithms?

Keynote: Martin Serrano, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Convergence of Big Data and Semantic Analysis: A path for Big Data Cybernetics and AI

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IEEE Blockchain Summit Keynotes

Keynote: Blockchain: Challenges and Opportunities

Sachiko Yoshihama, Senior Manager, Ph. D, FSS & Blockchain Solutions, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Sachiko Yoshihama is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Manager at

IBM Research - Tokyo. She leads a team that focuses on financial and blockchain

solutions. Her research interest is to bring advanced concepts and technologies to

practice and address real-world problems to transform industries. She served as a

technical leader and advisor in a number o f b lockchain pro jects with clients in Japan

and Asia. She jo ined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 2001, and then moved to

IBM Research – Tokyo in 2003 and worked on research in informat ion security

technologies, including trusted computing, information flow control, and Web security.

She served as a technology innovation leader at IBM Research Global Labs HQ in

Shanghai in 2012 and helped define research strategies for developing countries. She

received Ph. D from Yokohama Nat ional University in 2010. She is a member of ACM, a senior member of

Information Processing Society of Japan, and a member of IBM Academy of Technology.

Keynote: From Network Virtualization to Blockchain Virtualization: Virtualization for Distributed Ledger Technology (vDLT)

F. Richard Yu, Professor, Ph. D, Carleton University, Canada

F. Richard Yu received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of

British Columbia (UBC) in 2003. From 2002 to 2006, he was with Ericsson (in Lund,

Sweden) and a start-up (in Califo rnia, USA). He jo ined Carleton University in 2007,

where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include distributed ledger

technology, wireless cyber-physical systems, connected/autonomous vehicles, security,

and deep learning. He has published over 450 papers in prestigious journals and

conferences, 14 book chapter, 6 ed ited books and 27 granted patents, with over 10,000

citations and an H-index of 61 (Google Scholar). He has received many professional

awards, including the prestigious Ontario Early Researcher Award and several Best Paper

Awards from some first-tier IEEE conferences.

He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Co-Editor-in-Chief for Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless

Networks, Lead Series Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Green

Communicat ions and Networking, and IEEE Communicat ions Surveys & Tutorials. He has served as the Technical

Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair of numerous conferences. Dr. Yu is a reg istered Professional Engineer in the

province of Ontario, Canada, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Fellow of the

IEEE. He is a Distinguished Lecturer, the Vice President (Membership), and an elected member of the Board of

Governors (BoG) of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is the Chair of IEEE P2418.3/4 Standards

Working Groups (Blockchain for Agriculture and Blockchain for Connected/Autonomous Vehicles).

Keynote: Blockchain in IoT-Security and Applications

Hui Li, Dean, Professor, Ph. D, Xidian University, China

Hui Li received B.Sc. degree from Fudan University in 1990, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees

from Xid ian University in 1993 and 1998. Since 2005, he has been the professor in

Xid ian University, China. Now, he is the executive dean of School of Cyber Engineering,

Xidian University.

His research interests are in the areas of cryptography, IoT and cloud computing security,

privacy protection, and information theory. He has published over 200 papers in

academic journals and conferences. He served as chair of ACM SIGSAC china chapter,

TPC co-chair of ISPEC 2009 and IAS 2009, general co-chair of E-Forensic 2010,

ProvSec 2011 and ISC 2011, honorary chair of NSS 2014, ASIACCS 2016.

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Keynote: Blockchain Technology and its Application in Financial Industry

Ruppa K. Thulasiram, Professor, Ph. D, University of Manitoba, Canada

Dr. Ruppa K. Thulasiram (Tulsi) is a Professor with the Department of Computer Science,

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba. He received his Ph.D., from Indian Institute

of Science, Bangalore, India and spent years at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada;

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta; and University of Delaware as Post-doc,

Research Staff and Research Faculty respectively before taking up a position at University

of Manitoba. Tulsi's current research interests include Computational Finance, Cloud

Computing, and related areasfocusing on Derivative PricingAlgorith ms, Investment

Optimization, Task Matching in Grid/Cloud Systems, Resource Pricing in Cloud. He has

written about two hundredpapers in the areas of High Temperature Physics, Gas Dynamics,

Computational Finance, Grid/Cloud computing, and ad hoc networks res earch areasin

prestigious journals and conferences. He has received many best paper awards at

conferences andmost cited paper recognition injournals. He has delivered many keynote andinvited talks at

conferences and special events. He has supervised many MSc and PhD thesesand graduated manystudents. He holds

a patent for true random generators along with students. His research has been continuously funded by the Natural

Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canadaand byotherfunding opportunities.

Tulsi has developed a curriculum for cross -disciplinary computational finance as well as Cloud computing courses

at University of Manitoba for both graduate &senior undergraduate levelsand has been teachingthemfor the past

several years. Also, he has been involved in the development of Business Analytics program at University of

Manitoba. Tulsi has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computingand has been guest

editor for journals such as Elsevier Parallel Computing, Wiley Concurrency and Computation –Practice and

Experience etc. Hehas organized many IEEE/ACM conferencesespecially in Computational Finance and

Computational Intelligence in Finance. He is associated with many professional societies and technical committees

of IEEE, ACM, ASAC etc. andis a senior member of IEEE.

Keynote: Economic and Security Foundations of Cryptocurrency Mining

Jens Grossklags, Professor, Ph. D, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Dr. Grossklags is a faculty member at the Technical University of Munich, where he

directs the Professorship of Cyber Trust at the Department of Informatics. His research

and teaching activities focus on economic and behavioral challenges in the areas of

security, privacy and technology policy.

He completed his doctoral dissertation at UC Berkeley's School of Information and

conducted postdoctoral research at Princeton University's Center for Information

Technology Policy. He also led the Security, Privacy and Information Economics Lab,

and served as the Haile Family Early Career Professor at the Pennsylvania State

University. In addition, Dr. Grossklags has been an invited visit ing professor at Eco le

Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), an invited visiting researcher at

Copenhagen Business School, an inv ited visiting s cientist at EURECOM, and an invited

professor at the IMDEA Software Institute. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM.

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IEEE Cybermatics Summit Keynotes

Keynote: Recent Advances and Challenges on Cybermatics

Stephen S. Yau, Professor, Ph. D, Arizona State University, USA

Stephen S, Yau is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State

University (ASU), Tempe, Arizona, USA. He served as the chair of the Department of

Computer Science and Engineering, and later as the director of Information Assurance

Center at ASU. Previously, he was on the facult ies of Northwestern University, Evanston,

Illinois, and University of Florida, Gainesville.

He served as the president of the Computer Society of the Institute of Electrical and

Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and was on the IEEE Board of Directors, and the Board of

Directors of Computing Research Association. He served as the editor-in-ch ief of IEEE

COMPUTER magazine. He organized many major conferences, including the 1989

World Computer Congress sponsored by the International Federation for Informat ion

Processing (IFIP), and the IEEE Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

sponsored by IEEE Computer Society. He was the general chair of the 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services,

including Cloud Computing, Web Services, Services Computing, Big Data. Cognitive Computing, Internet -of-

Things, and Edge Computing, held in San Francisco, July 2 – 8, 2018.

His current research includes cloud and services computing, cyber security, software engineering, ubiquitous

computing and Internet-of-Things. He has received many awards and recognitions, including the Tsutomu Kanai

Award and Richard E. Merwin Award of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Centennial Award and Third

Millennium Medal, and the Outstanding Contributions Award of the Chinese Computer Federat ion. He is a Life

Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the B.S.

degree from National Taiwan University, Taipei, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana,

all in electrical engineering.

Keynote: Privacy-Preserving Data Processing with Flexible Access Control

Zheng Yan, Professor, Ph. D, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland

Zheng Yan is currently a professor at the Xidian University, China and a visiting

professor and Finnish academy research fellow at the Aalto University, Finland. She

received the Doctor of Science in Technology from the Helsinki University o f

Technology. She authored and co-authored about 200 peer-reviewed articles, 8

conference proceedings and solely authored two books about trust management. She is an

inventor of 60+ granted patents and PCT patents, all of them were adopted by industry.

Some of her granted patents are applied in international standards. She has given 20

keynotes and invited talks in international conferences and universities. Her research

interests are in trust, security and privacy; blockchain; data mining; mobile applicat ions

and services; social networking and cloud computing. Prof. Yan serves as an

organizational and technical committee member for more than 80 international

conferences and workshops. She is an associate editor of IEEE IoT Journal, Informat ion

Fusion, Information Sciences, IEEE Access, JNCA, Soft Computing, IEEE Blockchain

Newsletter, Security and Communicat ion Networks, etc. and a special issue leading guest editor of ACM TOMM,

IEEE Systems Journal, Future Generation Computer Systems, Computers & Security, IJCS, MONET, etc. She is a

founder steering committee co -chair of IEEE Blockchain conference. She is o rganizing and has organized 10+

conferences, such as IEEE Blockchain 2018, NSS/ICA3PP/IEEE CIT2017, IEEE TrustCom/BigDataSE/ISPA -2015,

IEEE CIT2014, etc. Her recent awards include a number of Outstanding Leadership Awards for IEEE conference

organization; the 2017 IEEE ComSoc TCBD Best Journal Paper Award; Outstanding Associate Editor of 2017 for

IEEE Access; Best Individual of Shaanxi Province from Abroad (2014), “100 Expert Plan” winner o f Shaanxi

Province, China (2011); Sisu Award of Nokia Research Center (2010). She is a senior member of IEEE.

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Keynote: Software Defined Cities: Integrating the Cyber World with the Internet of Things

Antonio Puliafito, Professor, Ph. D, University of Messina, Italy

Prof Antonio Puliafito is a fu ll professor of computer engineering at the University of

Messina, Italy. His interests include distributed systems, networking, IoT and Cloud

computing. He is act ing as an expe rt in ICT for the European Commission since 1998. He

is currently the President of the Centre on Informat ion Technologies at University of

Messina. He participated in several European projects such as Reservoir, Vision,

CloudWave and Beacon. He has contributed in the development of several tools such as

WebSPN, ArgoPerformance, GS3 and Stack4Things. He is member of the management

board of the National Center of Informat ics in Italy (CINI), with specific interests in Smart

cities. He is in charge of the #Sma rtME crowdfunding in itiat ive, to develop a smart city

infrastructure in the city of Messina. He is author and co-author of more than 400 scientific

papers.

Keynote: Challenges in Temporal Network Applications: How to Design Intelligent Algorithms?

Parimala Thulasiraman, Professor, Ph. D, University of Manitoba, Canada

Parimala Thulasiraman is a Professor with the Department of Computer Science at the

University of Manitoba. She received her B.Eng. (Honours) and M.A.Sc. degrees in

Computer Engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, QC, Canada and obtained

her Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in Newark, DE, USA after finishing most of

her formalit ies at McGill University in Montreal, QC, Canada. Parimala’s research

interests are in the intersection of high performance parallel/distributing computing and

graph analytics for real world applicat ions in Network Science. Her laboratory, Inter -

Discip linary Evolving Algorithmic Sciences (IDEAS), applies innovative soft computing

techniques such as evolutionary computation, bio-inspired computation, and machine

learning to solve challenging issues in complex network systems and data scientific

problems. She exp lores novel algorithmic optimization techniques for these problems to

efficiently map, design, and develop scalable algorithms for futuristic mult icore

architectures. Parimala has supervised and graduated over 80 students. She has published over 120 papers in notable

conferences, such as the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Symposium, journals, such as the Journal of

Parallel and Distributed Computing, a book and several book chapters. She has received best paper awards in

leading high-performance computing conferences. Her research is supported through the national grant from the

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada as well as other local grants. Parimala has organized

many important conferences as local chair, p rogram chair, and tutorial chair. She is the editor and guest editor for

major journals and has been serving as a reviewer and program committee member for many conferences in high

performance computing and soft computing. She is also a reviewer for many leading journals. She is a member and

senior member of the ACM and IEEE societies, respectively. For more information, please see Parimala’s homepage: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~thulasir/

http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~thulasir/

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Keynote: Convergence of Big Data and Semantic Analysis: A path for Big Data Cybernetics and AI

Martin Serrano, Data Scientist, Ph. D, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Dr. Serrano is the Principal Investigator & Data Scientist Research Data Scientist of

Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Nat ional University of Ireland Galway, Ireland, with

more than 15 years experience in industry and applied research within a wide range of

successful European (FP5-FP7/H2020) co llaborative software projects, Irish National

Projects (HEA PRTLI, SFI) and also Enterprise Ireland (EI) innovation projects. He is

also the Vice-Chair W G 01 Association for IoT Innovation (AIOTI) and the Chair of

IEEE ComSoc IoT Experimentation Chapter.

Dr. Serrano is a continuous contributor to the Scientific, Research and Innovation agenda

for Europe. He is also actively investigating, Semantic-based Cloud Infrastructures and

Big Data Management. Data Bases Stream Processing, BIG Data Analytic Serv ices,

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Control, Privacy and Security aspects for IoT, Sensor

Networks, Body networks and their deployment in cloud computing environments.

Dr. Serrano is the coordinator and scientific d irector of two research labs one in Sensors Networks and the second

one in Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Engineering Systems (AIRES lab) at the insight center at the national

university of Ireland. Dr. Serrano is the Data Management, IPR & Analytics Manager and leader on research

activities in the EU H2020 ActivAge Large Scale Project (www.act ivageproject.eu), Dr. Serrano has extensive

experience on Smart City and health-related projects in the past he was involved in a HEA Irish-based project called

HEA-futurecomms (http://futurecomm.tssg.org) where he was investigating methodologies and algorithms for the

optimal use of IT technologies (i.e. cloud systems and analytic systems) for remote health monitoring.

Dr. Serrano has a leading ro le at the European Research Cluster for the Internet of Things (IoT) and he is board

member at the Connected Smart Cities Network. He is an active member of IEEE (Computer and Communication

Societies) and ACM with more than 100 pair reviewed publicat ions and He is the author of 4 academic books in

related areas.

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IEEE Standards Summit

Using Standards to Build Security and Privacy in IoT

Mary Lynne Nielsen has worked in the technology standards field for over 25 years,

supporting the creation of industry consensus at the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA).

Currently, she is the Global Operations and Outreach Program Director for the IEEE-SA,

developing and leading effective coordination and collaboration for successful IEEE-SA

outreach efforts with national, regional, and global organizations. Mary Lynne also supports

the development of IEEE’s programs focusing on the intersection of technology and policy.

As a leader for IEEE-SA's technology policy and international act ivit ies program, Mary

Lynne provides thought leadership, planning, and execution of outreach programs that work

with IEEE-SA functions, existing and new programs, and opportunities to increase the global

presence of the IEEE-SA. Her part icular geographic areas of focus are North, Central, and

South America.

Mary Lynne also acts as a catalyst for collaboration within IEEE and between IEEE and others in advancing

emerging and converging technologies and supporting multi -stakeholder discussions, serving as a speaker at and

developer of multip le conferences, workshops, and panel discussions . A graduate of Indiana University, Mary

Lynne has also completed executive education at Cornell University. She is the recip ient of an IEEE Comput er

Society Certificate of Appreciation as well as an Appreciation Award from the IEEE-SA Standards Board.

Florence Hudson is a former IBM Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and

Internet2 Senior Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer. She is currently Special

Advisor for Next Generation Internet at the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at

Columbia University, enabling United States/European Union collaboration. She is co -

founder of IEEE-ISTO “Blockchain in Healthcare Global,” on the Editoria l Board of

Blockchain in Healthcare Today, and on engineering and technology advisory councils at

Princeton University, Cal Po ly San Luis Obispo, Stony Brook University, and Union

County College. She is on the program committee for the Computational Approaches for

Cancer workshop at SuperComputing17-18 and fo r the 2018 NSF Cybersecurity Summit.

She has presented in many venues worldwide, from Dubai to Japan, including a TED talk

focused on sustainability on a s marter planet. She is a global thought leader, consultant, and speaker, and she has

published on transformational topics such as big data analytics, internet of things, smarter cit ies, cognitive

computing, blockchain, and diversity and inclusion. Ms. Hudson graduated from Princeton University with a

Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, beginning her career at Grumman

Corporation and NASA Jet Propulsion Lab. She attended executive education at Harvard Business School and

Columbia University.

Asem Othman, Team Lead, Biometric Science at Verid ium, has worked for more

than seven years as a researcher and developer in the biometrics space. During his

doctorate research at West Virg inia University, he developed a system of

protecting and storing biometric templates using visual cryptography, which

Veridium uses today in its Verid iumID solution. Dr. Othman performed his

postdoctoral research at Michigan State University before jo ining the Computer

Vision team at Verid ium and leading research on their 4 Fingers TouchlessID

technology. Dr. Othman holds four patents/patents pending and has published a

variety of journal articles, conference papers, and key research entries.

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The iThings 2018 Technical Program


08:00-16:00 Registration

13:30-14:50 iThings-1 (Room 101)

14:50-15:50 iThings-2 (Room 101)

15:50-16:05 Coffee Break

16:05-17:25 iThings-3 (Room 101)

17:25-18:25 iThings-4 (Room 101)

iThings-1: IoT Systems and Applications I Session Chair: Arash Mohammadi, Concordia University, Canada

1. Cybersecurity Attacks and Defences for Unmanned Smart Ships Bilhanan Silverajan, Mert Ocak, and Benjamin Nagel

2. CTMC modeling for M2M/H2H Coexistence in a NB-IoT Adaptive eNodeB A. H. EL Fawal, Ali Mansour, Mohamad Najem, Frederic Le Roy, and Denis Le Jeune

3. Be Right Beach: A Social IoT System for Sustainable Tourism Based on Beach Overcrowding Avoidance

Roberto Girau, Enrico Ferrara, Maura Pintor, Mariella Sole, and Daniele Giusto

4. A Deep CFS Model for Text Clustering Bin Lv, Weiliang Hou, Guohua Liu, Jing Gao, Xu Yuan, Peng Li, and Zhikui Chen

iThings-2: IoT Systems and Applications II Session Chair: Arash Mohammadi, Concordia University, Canada

1. Applicable Protocol for Updating Firmware of Automotive HVAC Electronic Control Units (ECUs) Over the Air

Tina Mirfakhraie, Giuliano Vitor, and Ken Grogan

2. Analyzing the Effect of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) with Randomized MAC Addresses in IoT

Applications Golnar Kalantar, Arash Mohammadi, and Golnar Kalantar

3. Advanced Statistical Models for Modeling Hot Water Consumption Using a Connected Boiler Hamdi Amroun, Mohamed Yacine Benziani, M'hamed hamy Temkit, and Mehdi Ammi

iThings-3: IoT Services and Intelligence I

Session Chair: Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

1. WiAnti: an Anti-interference Activity Recognition System Based on WiFi CSI Jinyang Huang, Bin liu, Hongxin Jin, and Zhiqiang Liu

2. FABIoT: A Flexible Agent-Based Simulation Model for IoT Environments

Marco Perez-Hernandez, Badraddin Alturki, and Stephan Reiff-Marganiec

3. A Simulation Environment of Embedded Control Systems for Multi-core Processors Yukikazu Nakamoto, Daichi Minami, Shota Shiba, Yoshitaka Koga, and Koji Fukuoka

4. A New Deep Transfer Learning Model for Judicial Data Classification Guohua Liu, Zhihong Ying, Liang Zhao, Xu Yuan, Zhikui Chen

iThings-4: Special Session on Securing IoT Networks

Session Chair: Peng Li, McMaster University, Canada

1. An Architecture for Distributing and Enforcing IoT Security at the Network Edge Luca Deri and Arianna Del Soldato

2. Security Model for Internet of Things end Devices

Rajashree S, Pritam Gajkumar Shah, and Sachchit Murali Phaneendra

3. Medical Image Annotation Based on Deep Transfer Learning Shoulin Yin and Jing Bi

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Tuesday July 31, 2018 08:00-16:00 Registration






12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 iThings-5 (Room 101)

14:50-15:50 iThings-6 (Room 101)


16:05-17:25 iThings-7 (Room 101)

17:25-18:25 iThings-8 (Room 101)

19:30-21:00 Reception

iThings-5: IoT Services and Intelligence II

Session Chair: Attlee Gamundani, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Namibia

1. TDeX: A Description Model for Heterogeneous Smart Devices and GUI Generation Luciano Baresi, Mersedeh Sadeghi, and Massimo Valla

2. An Ontology-based Domain Modeling and Device Search in Smart Home

Yue Xu, Pengfei Hu, and Huansheng Ning

3. Secure Firmware Updates for IoT: A Survey Antti Kolehmainen

4. Lightweight Internet of Things Encryption Using Galois Extension Field Arithmetic

Jason M. McGinthy and Alan Michaels

iThings-6: Special Session on IoT Solutions for Smart Healthcare Session Chair: Tina Mirfakhraie, Mobile Climate Control, Canada

1. Smart Cup to Monitor Stroke Patients Activities during Everyday Life

Maxence Bobin, Hamdi Amroun, Mehdi Boukalle, Margarita Anastassova, and Mehdi Ammi

2. A System to Lower the Risk of Dispensing Medication Errors at Pharmacies Using NFC Bader Aldughayfiq and Srinivas Sampalli

3. MCEP: a Mobile Device Based Complex Event Processing System for Remote Healthcare

Amarjit Singh Dhillon, Shikharesh Majumdar, Marc St-Hilaire, and Ali El-Haraki

iThings-7: IoT Services and Intelligence III Session Chair: Tina Mirfakhraie, Mobile Climate Control, Canada

1. An Efficient Jaya Algorithm for Resource Allocation in the Cognitive-Radio-Networks-Aided Internet of Things Xiong Luo, Zhijie He, Long Wang, Weiping Wang, Huansheng Ning , Jenq-Haur Wang, and Wenbing Zhao

2. An Overview of Potential Authentication Threats and Attacks on Internet of Things (IoT): A focus on Smart Home Applications

Attlee M. Gamundani, Amelia Phillips, and Hippolyte N Muyingi

3. Improving IoT Services in Smart-home Using Blockchain Smart Contract Yiyun Zhou, Meng Han, Liyuan Liu, Yan Wang, Yi Liang, and Ling Tian

4. Harnessing Energy Consumption in a Smarthome IoT Framework Desiree I. Cendana, Neriza V. Bustillo, Thelma D. Palaoag, Mark Anthony Marcial, and Arjay E. Perreras

iThings-8: IoT Networks and Communications Session Chair: Amjad Anvari-Moghaddam, Aaborg University, Denmark

1. Semi-Coherent Transmission Security for Low Power IoT Devices

Jason M. McGinthy and Alan Michaels

2. Towards Enforcement of the EU GDPR: Enabling Data Erasure Subhadeep Sarkar, Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Louis Rilling, and Christine Morin

3. The Digital Power Networks: Energy Dissemination Through a Micro-Grid Xin Mio, Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Ahmed Mohamed, and Haim Grebel

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19:30-21:00 Conference Banquet

IEEE Blockchain Summit

Chair: Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Keynotes: Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan F. Richard Yu, Carleton University, Canada

Hui Li, Xidian University, China Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada

Jens Grossklags, Technical University of Munich, Germany

IEEE Cybermatics Summit

Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Keynotes: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy

Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada Martin Serrano, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

IEEE Standards Summit 16:45-17:00 IEEE Standards Association Overview and Key IoT Activities

Mary Lynne Nielsen, Global Operations and Outreach Program Director, IEEE Standards

Association 17:00-17:45 Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security (TIPPSS) for Smart Cities

Florence D. Hudson, Editorial Board, Blockchain in Healthcare Today; Special Advisor for Next Generation Internet, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University

17:45-18:30 Addressing Security, Privacy, and Identity with Biometrics Asem Othman, Team Lead, Biometric Science, Veridium

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 iThings-9 (Room 101)

iThings-9: IoT Enabling Technologies Session Chair: Amarjit Singh Dhillon, Carleton Univeristy, Canada

1. Design and Performance Evaluation of Containerized Microservices on Edge Gateway in Mobile IoT Amit Singh Gaur, Jyoti Budakoti, and Chung-Horng Lung

2. An Energy Packet Switch for Digital Power Grids Roberto Rojas-Cessa, Chuan-kuo Wong, Zhengqi Jiang, Haard Shah, Haim Grebel, and Ahmed Mohamed

3. IoT Gateway Middleware for SDN Managed IoT

Jyoti Budakoti, Amit Singh Gaur, and Chung-Horng Lung

4. Extending Openstack for Cloud-based Networking at the Edge Zakaria Benomar, Dario Bruneo, Salvatore Distefano, Khalid Elbaamrani, Noureddine Idboufker, Francesco

Longo, Giovanni Merlino, and Antonio Puliafito

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The GreenCom 2018 Technical Program



13:30-15:50 GreenCom 1 (Room 108)


16:05-18:25 GreenCom 2 (Room 108)

GreenCom 1: Energy-Efficient Networking and Communications Session Chair: Wei Song, University of New Brunswick, Canada

1. Spatio-Temporal Clustering of GPS Traces for Energy-Efficiency in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks Zachary W Lamb and Dharma P Agrawal

2. Network Energy Efficiency through Matching and Reconfiguration Juvencio Arnaldo Manjate, Markus Hidell, and Peter Sjödin

3. An Efficient Greedy Algorithm for Wide Band Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks

Wajeeha Nasar, Abdur Rahman Maud, Hao Wang, and Hong-Ning Dai

4. Energy Efficient Transport Protocol for Mitigating Congestion in Complex Networks Long Chen, Ming Chi, Jie Chen, Bin Hu, and Zhi-hong Guan

5. Optimal Beamforming for Enabling Self-Sustainable Secondary Tier in Heterogeneous Networks Yu-Rong Xiao and Kuang-Hao (Stanley) Liu

6. A Novel Node Selection Algorithm for Collaborative Beamforming in Wireless Sensor Networks

Xuecai Bao, Hao Liang, and Longzhe Han

GreenCom 2: Green Society Applications

Session Chair: Hao Liang, University of Alberta, Canada

1. A Low-Cost Collaborative Indoor Localization System based on Smartphone Platform

Xiaoyuan Liang, Guiling Wang, and Zhu Han

2. A Check-in System Leveraging Face Recognition Qi Liu, Hong Li, Yan Hu, and Limin Sun

3. Bins with Eyes: Towards a More Efficient Urban Ecosystem Massimo Marchiori

4. A Case for Atmospheric Transmittance: Solar Energy Prediction in Wireless Sensor Nodes

Stefan Draskovic, Rehan Ahmed, Cong Lin, and Lothar Thiele

5. Network Analysis Based on 2/4G Common Coverage Research in Rural Area Jie Chen

6. Double Encoding - Slow Decoding Image to Image CNN for Foreground Identification with Application Towards Intelligent Transportation

Thangarajah Akilan and Jonathan Wu

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:50 GreenCom 3 (Room 108)


16:05-18:25 GreenCom 4 (Room 108) GreenCom: Workshop (Room 109)


GreenCom 3: Energy Harvesting Communications and Networks Session Chair: Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

1. Sum Power Minimization of Greener Communications with Energy Harvesting

Tony Liu and Peter He

2. SMDP-Based Downlink Packet Scheduling Scheme for Solar Energy Assisted Heterogeneous Networks Qizhen Li, Jie Gao, Jinming Wen, Xiaohu Tang, Lian Zhao, and Limin Sun

3. RF-Energy Harvesting from Moving Vehicles: Mathematical Modeling and Selection Protocol

Ala Abu Alkheir and Hussein T. Mouftah

4. A Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Energy Harvesting in Large Scale Wireless Networks Ziru Chen, Zhao Chen, Lin X. Cai, Yu Cheng, and Ruoting Gong

5. Context-Aware Proactive Caching for Heterogeneous Networks with Energy Harvesting: An Online Learning Approach

Huijin Cao and Jun Cai

6. An Auction-Based Time Scheduling Mechanism for Backscatter-Aided RF-Powered Cognitive Radio Networks

Xiaozheng Gao, Ping Wang, Dusit Niyato, Kai Yang, and Jianping An

GreenCom 4: Secuirty and Privacy-Preserving in Green Communications

Session Chair: Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada

1. A Concept Drift Based Ensemble Incremental Learning Approach for Intrusion Detection Xiaoming Yuan, Ran Wang, Yi Zhuang, Kun Zhu, and Jie Hao

2. An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving k-NN Query Scheme for eHealthcare Data

Yandong Zheng and Rongxing Lu

3. Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Online Face Recognition over Encrypted Outsourced Data Xiaopeng Yang, Hui Zhu, Rongxing Lu, Ximeng Liu, and Hui Li

4. A Privacy-Preserving Incentive Framework for the Vehicular Cloud Abdulrahman Alamer, Sultan Basudan, and Xiaodong Lin

5. When Friendly Jamming Meets Wireless Energy Transfer

Qi Sun, Hong-Ning Dai, Qiu Wang, Xuran Li, and Hao Wang

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Workshop: Networked Vehicles for Intelligent Transportation and Smart Grid

Session Chair: Stanley Liu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

1. Modeling Trajectory-Based I2V Message Delivery Over VANETs with Vehicle Detours Shun-Ren Yang and Yi-Syuan Shen

2. A Protocol to Protocol Switching Mechanism for Energy Saving of Power-Constrained in LTE and NB-

IoT Interworking Networks Chia-Peng Lee, Phone Lin, and Hsuan-Yeh Chen

3. Estimating Software Energy Consumption with Machine Learning Approach by Software Performance

Feature CuiJiao Fu, Depei Qian, and Zhongzhi Luan

4. A Locality-Aware, Energy-Efficient Cache Design for Large-Scale Multi-Core Systems

Abdulrahman Alshegaifi and Chun-Hsi Huang

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:50 GreenCom 5 (Room 108)


16:05-18:25 GreenCom 6 (Room 108)


GreenCom 5: Optimization and Analysis in Green Communications Session Chair: Zulfiker Ali, Ryerson University, Canada

1. Distortion-Aware Multicasting of Multiple Description Coded Media in Wireless Mesh Networks Abdulelah Alganas and Dongmei Zhao

2. Efficient Task Allocation for Mobile Crowd Sensing Based on Evolutionary Computing Xi Tao and Wei Song

3. IEEE 802.15.6-Based LTE Overlay Network with Priority Support

Nargis Khan, Jelena Mišić, and Vojislav B. Mišić

4. An Improved DFT Channel Estimation Algorithm Zhi Chen and Yan Wang

5. An Implementational Model of Telecommunications Networks for the Energy Analyst: Segmentation in

the Metropolitan Area Etienne-Victor Depasquale, Saviour Zammit, Franco R. Davoli, and Raffaele Bolla

6. Efficiency of Restricted Access Window Scheme of IEEE 802.11ah Under Non-ideal Channel Condition

M Zulfiker Ali, Jelena Mišić, and Vojislav B. Mišić

GreenCom 6: Green Technilogies for 5G

Session Chair: Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, Canada

1. Energy Efficient Caching in Backhaul-aware Ultra-dense Cellular Networks

Kun Zhu, Ran Wang, Bing Chen, and Chen Dai

2. Scheduling Video Transcoding Jobs in the Cloud Panagiotis Oikonomou, Maria G. Koziri, Nikos Tziritas, Antonios N. Dadaliaris, Thanasis Loukopoulos,

Georgios I. Stamoulis, and Samee U. Khan

3. Flexible Virtual Energy Sharing by Distributed Task Reallocation in IoT Edge Networks Ruitao Chen, Xianbin Wang, and Shuran Sheng

4. Energy-Efficient Task Scheduling for Data Centers with Unstable Renewable Energy: A Robust Optimization Approach

Yiwen Lu, Ran Wang, Ping Wang, Yue Cao, Jie Hao, and Kun Zhu

5. Efficient Deduplicated Reporting in Fog-Assisted Vehicular Crowdsensing Sultan Basudan, Abdulrahman Alamer, Xiaodong Lin, and Karthik Sankaranarayanan

6. Multi Agents to Search and Rescue Based on Group Intelligent Algorithm and Edge Computing

Tingting Yang, Zhi Jiang, Jie Dong, Hailong Feng, and Chengming Yang

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The CPSCom 2018 Technical Program



13:30-14:50 CPSCom-1 (Room 104) CPSCom-3 (Room 107)

14:50-15:50 CPSCom-2 (Room 104) CPSCom-4 (Room 107)


16:05-17:25 CPSCom-5 (Room 104)

17:25-18:25 CPSCom-6 (Room 104)

CPSCom-1: Technologies & Applications I Session Chair: Saurabh Dey, Dalhousie University, Canada

1. Application of Blockchain Technology to Smart City Service: A Case of Ridesharing

Shuchih Chang and Chi Yin Chang

2. AMLT: A Mutual Authentication Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing

Saurabh Dey, Qiang Ye, and Srinivas Sampalli

3. Multi-scale Feature Learning Based on RICA for Single Training Sample Face Recognition

Yongyong Mei, Xingang Liu, Tao Yu, Cheng Dai, and Jingren Yan

4. Video Based Action Recognition using Spatial and Temporal Feature

Cheng Dai, Xingang Liu, Luhao Zhong, and Tao Yu

CPSCom-2: Networks & Communications Session Chair: Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada

1. FPGA Implementation and Power Estimation of a Memory-Reduced LTE-Advanced Turbo Decoder

Yaqin Shi, Ming Zhan, and Jie Zeng

2. High-Precision Indoor Localization Based on RFID and Stepscan Floor Tiles

Ishar Singh, Qiang Ye, and Srinivas Sampalli

3. The Measurement Coverage for Boolean Tomography with Limited End Monitors

Shengli Pan

CPSCom-3: Cyber Physical Systems and Edge Computing Session Chair: Zhuo Li, Beijing Information Technology University, China

1. Deep Square Similarity Learning for Person Re-identification in the Edge Computing System

Xin Chen, Zhuo Li, Shenglong Xiao, and Ying Chen

2. Mobile Crowd Sensing Service Platform for Social Security Incidents in Edge Computing

Yuzhe Zhao, Zhuo Li, Xin Chen, and Ying Chen

3. Energy-Aware Task Offloading for Ultra-Dense Edge Computing

Jie Zhang, Hongzhi Guo, and Jiajia Liu

4. Design and Application of Internet of Things Technology Based on WeChat Control

Qiaoqiao Kang and Baojiang Sun

CPSCom-4: Technologies & Applications II Session Chair: Zhuo Li, Beijing Information Technology University, China

1. Mind your Step: Monitoring Pedestrian Sidewalks

Massimo Marchiori

2. Real-time Object Recognition Based on NAO Humanoid Robot

Qianyuan Liu, Chengjin Zhang, Yong Song, and Bao Pang

3. The Complex Network Model Construction of Multi-Objective Job Shop Based on Data Information

Xuesong Jiang, Jiarong Han, Xiumei Wei, and Quanjun Li

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CPSCom-5: Cloud Manufacturing and Industrial IoT I

Session Chair: Wei Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

1. Achieving Real-Time Quality of Service with Software Defined Networking

Zhaoquan Gu, Yuexuan Wang, and Xiao Lin

2. An Overview on Smart Maintenance Service Scheduling System and Theoretical Basis for Agricultural Machinery

Yu Liu, Yaoguang Hu, Jingqian Wen, and Yue Tang

3. An Adaptive Weighted Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Color Images Reconstruction in the Field of

Automation

Chao Huang, Shubo Qiu, Huiyuan Zhou, and Xiangyue Zhou

CPSCom-6: Cloud Manufacturing and Industrial IoT II Session Chair: Lei Ren, Beihang University, China

1. Research of Optimal Splitting Level of Splitting Method

Liping Wang and Wenhui Fan

2. A Blockchain Model for Industrial Internet

Lei Ren, Sanbao Zheng, and Lin Zhang

3. A Sharing Bike Scheduling Optimization Algorithm Based on Two-dimensional Dynamic Model and Improved

Genetic Algorithm

Zhenheng Li and Lei Ren

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 CPSCom-7 (Room 104)

14:50-15:50 CPSCom-8 (Room 104)


16:05-17:25 CPSCom-9 (Room 104)

17:25-18:25 CPSCom-10 (Room 104)


CPSCom-7: Systems & Design I Session Chair: Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

1. Global Stabilization of High-Order Stochastic Nonlinear Systems Disturbed by Unknown Covariance Noise and Time-

varying Delay

Huifang Min, Jason Gu, Na Duan, and Chengyang Luo

2. Design and Control of an Intelligent Wheeled Robot

Yong Song, Changshen Xu, Xing Fang, Caihong Li, Di Wang, and Simon X. Yang

3. Design and Evaluation of Jamming Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems

Ivana Tomic, Michael J Breza, Greg Jackson, Laksh Bhatia, and Julie A. McCann

4. Generative Adversarial Networks Imputation for High Rate Missing Values

Xiaojuan Ban, Yibin Chen, Bingyang Shen, and Di Wu

CPSCom-8: Systems & Design II Session Chair: Hao Wang, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

1. Identification by Gait Using Convolutional Restricted Boltzmann Machine and Voting Algorithm

Tao Yu, Xingang Liu, Yongyong Mei, Cheng Dai, and Jingren Yan

2. A Testing Method of the Residual Information Clearance in Virtual Machine for the Cloud Operating System

Yan Chen, Jing Lai, and Xiang Wei.

3. A Dynamic Resource Allocation Method for Load-Balance Scheduling Over Big Data Platforms

Wenda Tang, Xiang Liu, Wajid Rafique, and Wanchun Dou

CPSCom-9: Data & Services I Session Chair: Fuhua Lin, Athabasca University, Canada

1. Maximum Incremental Load Recursive Model based on LS-SVM Considering Accumulated Temperature Effect

Ti Guan, Zheng Xu, Lin Lin, Guilin Zhang, Yujian Jia, and Yawen Shi

2. An Improved Automatic Thumbnail Generation Algorithm Based on Interpolation Technique

Guifan Weng, Chun Yang, Jinyi Long, and Shanying Chen

3. Patch-wise Normalization for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition from Single Sample

Jingren Yan, Yongyong Mei, Xingang Liu, Cheng Dai, and Tao Yu

4. Optimizing Rescheduling Intervals through Using Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms

Fuhua Lin, Ali Dewan, and Matthew Nguyen

CPSCom-10: Data & Services II

Session Chair: Fuhua Lin, Athabasca University, Canada

1. The Distribution of Transient Magnetic Field and Eddy Current Losses of Three-Phase Five-Legged Transformer

Under DC Bias

Xia Dong

2. Optimization of Dynamic Preventive Maintenance for Multicomponent Systems

Zhigang Chen, Hong Xiao, Rongyue Zhang, Xiucong Shi, Yubing Zhou, Jingsong Lv, and Shengyun Xu

3. Safety Analysis of Metro Turnouts Based on Fuzzy FMECA

Jingsong Lv, Shengyun Xu, Rongyue Zhang, Hong Xiao, and Zhigang Chen

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

14:50-15:50 CPSCom-11: Poster (Room 104)




CPSCom-11: Service-related Computational Intelligence in Cyber Physical Systems (Posters)

1. An Improved TFIDF Algorithm Based on Dual Parallel Adaptive Computing Model

Yuwan Gu, Yaru Wang, Juan Huan, Yuqiang Sun, and Weikuan Jia

2. A Hybrid Model of Empirical Wavelet Transform and Extreme Learning Machine for Dissolved Oxygen Forecasting

Weijian Cao, Yuwan Gu, Juan Huan, and Yilin Qin

3. A Multi-Objective Data Placement Method for IoT Applications Over Big Data Using NSGA-II Xiaolong Xu, Renhao Gu, Yuan Yuan, Kai Peng, Yadang Chen, Wanchun Dou, and Alex X. Liu

4. A Parallel-Batch Multi-Objective Job Scheduling Algorithm in Edge Computing Xingguang Zhao, Xing Guo, Yiwen Zhang, and Wei Li

5. An Energy-Aware Virtual Machine Scheduling Method for Cloudlets in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks Xiaolong Xu, Yuancheng Li, Yuan Yuan, Kai Peng, Wenbin Yu, Wanchun Dou, and Alex X. Liu

CPSCom-12: Advances in Tensor Computation and Analysis for Image Processing (Posters)

1. Hyperspectral Image Dead Line Removal Based on Tensor Completion Hu Zhu, Lu Liu, Yusheng Guan, Jieke Zhang, Lizhen Deng, and Xianfeng Mao

2. Hypergraph Matching via A Nonmonotone Newton Method

Hu Zhu, Tao Xie, Lizhen Deng, and Xueqin Wang 3. A Homomorphic Searching Scheme for Sensitive Data in NoSQL Database

Baohua Huang, Sheng Liang, Dongdong Xu, and Zhuohao Wan

4. An Implementable Accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Low-Rank Tensor Completion Duo Qiu, Hu Zhu, and Xiongjun Zhang

5. Dynamic Construction and Evolution Analysis of Manufacturing Service Network Supported by Machine

Tools in Cloud Manufacturing Environment Xiaorong Gong, Chao Yin, and Xiaobin Li

CPSCom-13: Machine Learning in Cyber Physical Systems (Posters)

1. EB-Boost: Medium-Long Term Forecasting Method of Supplies of Shared E-Cars in Smart Scenic Spots

Hong Li, Xiaosheng Yang, Yao Xia, Lujie Zheng, Jie Wang, Guoqing Yang, and Pan Lv

2. Android Evaluation Methodology in Automotive Electronics Hong Li, Huarui Zhang, Lei Huang, Kailai Shao, Guoqing Yang, Nenggan Zheng, and Xufeng Jiang

3. Deep Neural Network based Disease Discrimination Learning from Small Medical Image Training Set and User Feedback

Daji Tang, Kehua Guo, Jianhua Ma, and Xiaoyan Kui

4. Semi-Automatic Neuron Tracing in Electron Microscope Images: Preliminary Results Deli Wang, Weijie Liu, Nenggan Zheng, and Ting Zhao

5. Smooth 3D Trajectory Segmentation for Flying Insects

Lei Zhao, Nenggan Zheng, and Qian Ma

6. Representation and Computation Method for the Bumblebee's Abdomen Movements Ruixia Guan, Yi Jiang, Yan Qi, and Nenggan Zheng

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The SmartData 2018 Technical Program









12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 SmartData-1 (Room 107)

14:50-15:50 SmartData-2 (Room 107)


16:05-17:25 SmartData-3 (Room 107)

17:25-18:25 SmartData-4 (Room 107)


SmartData-1: Smart Data Applications I Session Chair: Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

1. Analysis of the Symmetry Properties of Large Periodic Magnetic Systems, to Reduce the Computation Time of the

Calculation of the Magneto-static Dipolar Energy

Iván Cabria

2. Hybrid Relabeled Model for Network Intrusion Detection

Bhumika Patel, Zaheenabanu Somani, Samuel A. Ajila, and Chung-Horng Lung

3. Visualization and Analysis of Breast Cancer Data

Sonal Bajaj and Waqar Haque

4. An Analysis on User Searches Effects

Nunziato Cassavia, Elio Masciari, Chiara Pulice, and Domenico Saccà

SmartData-2: Data Science and Big Data Infrastructure for Smart Cities Session Chair: Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Italy

1. AI Enhanced Alarm Presentation for Quality Monitoring

Satu Tamminen, Xiaoli Liu, Henna Tiensuu Eija Ferreira, Esa Puukko, and Juha Roning

2. STDP: Secure Privacy-preserving Trajectory Data Publishing

Chris Soo-Hyun Eom, Wookey Lee, and Carson Kai-Sang Leung

3. INGRIM: A Middleware to Enable Remote Method Invocation Routing in Multiple Group Device -to-Device Networks

Stephen W. Clyde, and Minh Le

SmartData-3: Smart Data Applications II

Session Chair: Iván Cabria, University of Valladolid, Spain

1. Featuring Real-time Imbalanced Network Traffic Classification

Meriem Amina Si Saber, Abdolkhalegh Bayati, Kim Khoa Nguyen, and Mohamed Cheriet

2. Smart Data Analysis for Water Quality in Catchment Area Monitoring

Di Wu, Hadi Mohammed, Hao Wang, and Razak Seidu

3. Convolution Recurrent Neural Networks for Short-term Prediction of Atmospheric Sensing Data

Peijiang Zhao, and Koji Zettsu

4. Real-time Transmission of Secured PLCs Sensing Data

Bunrong Leang, Rock-Won Kim, and Kwan-Hee Yoo

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SmartData-4: Smart Data Processing and Analytics

Session Chair: Waqar Haque, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

1. A Finite Multi-Dimensional Generalized Gamma Mixture Model

Basim Alghabashi, and Nizar Bouguila

2. KD1: A Sampling-based Clustering Scheme for Large Data Sets

Afees Odebode, Qiang Ye, Srinivas Sampalli, and Saurabh Dey

3. Period Detection and Future Trend Prediction Using Machine Learning Techniques

Haoye Lu, Anand Srinivasan, and Amiya Nayak

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 SmartData-5 (Room 107)

14:50-15:50 SmartData-6 (Room 107)


16:05-17:25 SmartData-7 (Room 107)

SmartData-5: Graph Big Database with Smart Applications I Session Chair: Wookey Lee, Inha University, South Korea

1. On the Designing of Popular Packages

Yangjun Chen and Wei Shi

2. Correlation Analysis Using Customer's Actual Data and Prediction Method of Store Preference

So-Hyun Park and Young-Ho Park

3. Robust Fault Analysis Using Sensors in Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes

Young-Kuk Kim and Woong-Kee Loh

4. Discussions on Subgraph Ranking for Keyworded Search

Justin J. Song, Inkyo Kang, Wookey Lee, Jinho Kim, and Joo-Yeon Lee

SmartData-6: Graph Big Database with Smart Applications II

Session Chair: Woong-Kee Loh, Gachon University, South Korea

1. DoOC: A Platform for Domain-oriented Online Community System Construction

Bingyang Huang, Chaokun Wang, and Jun Qian

2. Data Stream Analysis of Online Activities

Koki Kawabata, Yasuko Matsubara, and Yasushi Sakurai

SmartData-7: Smart Data Applications III Session Chair: Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, South Korea

1. Data Anomaly Detection with Parallelizing CDP Algorithm

Yuan Wang and Vincent Ng

2. ExperTwin: An Alter Ego in Cyberspace for Knowledge Workers

Carlos Toxtli-Hernandez, Flores-Saviaga, Marco Maurier, Amandine Ribot, Temitayo Bankole, Alexander

Entrekin, Michael Cantley, Salvi Singh, Sumitra Reddy, and Ramana Reddy

3. Path Planning in Support of Smart Mobility Applications Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Mehdi Mohammadi, Ala Al-Fuqaha, and Jun-Seok Oh

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The Blockchain 2018 Technical Program



13:30-14:50 Blockchain-M1 (Room 102) Blockchain-S1 (Room 103) Blockchain-W (Room 109)





Note: M(Main conference), S(Symposium), W(Workshop), SS(Special Session)

Blockchain-M1: Smart Contract I

Session Chair: Miroslav Kis, TMX Group Inc, Canada

1. Formal Requirement Enforcement on Smart Contracts based on Linear Dynamic Logic

Naoto Sato, Takaaki Tateishi, and Shunichi Amano

2. Security Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Mariusz Nowostawski and Ardit Dika

3. Auto-Generation of Smart Contracts from Domain-specific Ontologies, and Semantic Rules

Olivia Choudhury, Nolan Rudolph, Issa Sylla, Noor Fairoza, and Amar Das

4. Window Based BFT Blockchain Consensus

Mohammad Jalalzai and Costas Busch

Blockchain-M2: Smart Contract II

Session Chair: Miroslav Kis, TMX Group Inc, Canada

1. Model-Checking of Smart Contracts

Zeinab Nehaï, Pierre-Yves Piriou, and Frédéric Daumas

2. SmartSupply: Smart Contract Based Validation for Supply Chain

Shuang Su, Ke Wang, and Hyong Kim

3. Identity Management in IoT Networks Using Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Ahmad Sghaier Omar and Otman Basir

Blockchain-M3: IoT and Blockchain I Session Chair: Issa Sylla, IBM Research, United States

1. Hybrid-IoT: Hybrid Blockchain Architecture for Internet of Things - PoW Sub-blockchains

Gokhan Sagirlar, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, John Sheehan, and Emanuele Ragnoli

2. A Sybil Resistant IoT Trust Model using Blockchains

Sarah Asiri and Ali Miri

3. BlendCAC: A BLockchain-ENabled Decentralized Capability-based Access Control for IoTs

Ronghua Xu, Yu Chen, Erik Blasch, and Genshe Chen

4. A Cross-Chain Solution to Integration of IoT Tangle for Date Access Management

Yiming Jiang, Chenxu Wang, Ye Huang, Siyu Long, and Yilun Huo

Blockchain-M4: IoT and Blockchain II Session Chair: Issa Sylla, IBM Research, United States

1. Ensuring Proof-of-Authenticity of IoT Edge Devices Using Blockchain Technology

Ujjwal Guin, Pinchen Cui, and Anthony Skjellum

2. ChainVeri: Blockchain-based Firmware Verification System for IoT Environment

Jea-Min Lim, Youngpil Kim, and Chuck Yoo

3. An Evaluation of the Security of the Bitcoin Peer-to- Peer Network

James Tapsell, Raja Naeem Akram, and Konstantinos Markantonakis

4. Secure Time Synchronization Scheme in IoT bas ed on Blockchain

Kai Fan, Yanhui Ren, Zheng Yan, Shangyang Wang, Hui Li, and Yintang Yang

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Blockchain-S1: Blockchain Applications I

Session Chair: Konstantinos Chalkias, R3, United Kingdom

1. PRIDE: A Private and Decentralized Usage-Based Insurance Using Blockchain

Zhiguo Wan, Zhangshuang Guan, and Xiuzhen Cheng

2. IoT Meets Blockchain: Parallel Distributed Architecture for Data Storage and Sharing

Shaowei Liu, Jing Wu, and Chengnian Long

3. Fog Computing Security Architecture for the IoT using Blockchain-based Social Networks

Xiaoyang Zhu and Youakim Badr

4. Webchain: Verifiable Citations and References for the World Wide Web

Elias Rohrer, Steffen Heidel, and Florian Tschorsch

Blockchain-S2: Blockchain Applications II Session Chair: Konstantinos Chalkias, R3, United Kingdom

1. Blockchain-Based, Decentralized Access Control for IPFS

Mathis Steichen, Beltran Fiz Pontiveros, Robert Norvill, Wazen M. Shbair, and Radu State

2. Blockchain for the Common Good: A Digital Currency for Citizen Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship

Shweta Jain and Rahul Simha

3. Secure, Fair and Efficient Data Trading without Third Party Using Blockchain

Zhangshuang Guan, Xiaobei Shao, and Zhiguo Wan

Blockchain-S3: Blockchain Applications III Session Chair: Chenxu Wang, Xian Jiaotong University, China

1. Blockchain-enabled Peer-to-peer Data Trading Mechanism

Moein Sabounchi, Jin Wei, and Rigoberto Roche'

2. Blockchain Use Cases in Digital Sectors: A Review of the Literature

Shiroq Al-Megren, Shada Alsalamah, Lina Altoaimy, Hessah Alsalamah, Leili Soltanisehat, Emad Almutairi, and

Alex Pentland

3. Solving Global Cybersecurity Problems by Connecting Trust using Blockchain

Christopher Gorog and Terrance Boult

4. Trust Management in Fog/Edge Computing by Means of Blockchain Technologies

Marcello Cinque, Christian Esposito, and Stefano Russo

Blockchain-S4: Blockchain and Bitcoin Session Chair: Chenxu Wang, Xian Jiaotong University, China

1. A Batch-Serv ice Queueing System with General Input and Its Application to Analysis of Mining Process for Bit coin

Blockchain

Yoshiaki Kawase and Shoji Kasahara

2. Niji: Autonomous Payment Bridge between Bitcoin and Consortium Blockchain

Hiroki Watanabe, Shigenori Ohashi, Shigeru Fujimura, Atsushi Nakadaira, Kota Hidaka, and Jay Kishigami

3. UTXOs as a proof of membership for Byzantine Agreement based Cryptocurrencies

Emmanuelle Anceaume, Antoine Guellier, and Romaric Ludinard

Blockchain-W: The 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for the Internet of Things Session Chair: Liang Cheng, Lehigh University, United States

1. Sharding Blockchain (Invited Paper)

Sherman S.M. Chow, Ziliang Lai, Chris Liu, Eric Lo, and Yongjun Zhao

2. The Blockchain of Things, Beyond Bitcoin: A Systematic Review

Fthi Arefayne Abadi, Joshua Ellul, and George Azzopardi

3. SmartEdge: A Smart Contract for Edge Computing

Kwame-Lante Wright, Martin Martinez, Uday Chadha, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari

4. Modeling the Energy Consumption of Blockchain Consensus Algorithms

Ryan Cole and Liang Cheng

5. Utilizing IoT Devices to Authenticate Out-of-Band Data in the Blockchain Context (Invited Paper)

Bingsheng Zhang

6. Macroprogramming the Blockchain of Things

Adrian Mizzi, Joshua Ellul, and Gordon Pace

7. Streaming Data Payment Protocol (SDPP) for the Internet of Things

Rahul Radhakrishnan and Bhaskar Krishnamachari

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 Blockchain-M5 (Room 102) Blockchain-S5 (Room 103) Blockchain-S6 (Room 109)

14:50-15:50 Blockchain-M6 (Room 102) Blockchain-S7 (Room 103)






Blockchain-M5: Blockchain Management I

Session Chair: Jay Kishigami, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

1. When Can a Distributed Ledger Replace a Trusted Third Party?

Thomas Locher, Sebastian Obermeier, and Yvonne-Anne Pignolet

2. Physical Access Control Management System Based on Permissioned Blockchain

Sara Rouhani, Vahid Pourheidari, and Ralph Deters

3. Conifer: centrally-managed PKI with blockchain-rooted trust

Yuhao Dong, Woojung Kim, and Raouf Boutaba

4. Distributed Data Vending on Blockchain

Jiayu Zhou, Fengyi Tang, He Zhu, Ning Nan, and Ziheng Zhou

Blockchain-M6: Blockchain Management II Session Chair: Shahzaib Tahir, City, University of London, United Kingdom

1. Improving End-to-End Verifiable Voting Systems with Blockchain Technologies

Ebrima N Ceesay and Anthony J Perez

2. Distributed Public Key Infrastructure and PSK Exchange Based on Blockchain Technology

Elie F. Kfoury and David Khoury

3. A New Approach to Client Onboarding using Self-Sovereign Identity and Distributed Ledger

Reza Soltani, Uyen Trang Nguyen, and Aijun An

Blockchain-M7: Blockchain Applications I Session Chair: Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada

1. Drugledger: A Practical Blockchain System for Drug Traceability and Regulation

Yan Huang, Jing Wu, and Chengnian Long

2. Astraea: A Decentralized Blockchain Oracle

John Adler, Ryan Berryhill, Andreas Veneris, Zissis Poulos, Neil Veira, and Anastasia Kastania

3. B-FICA: BlockChain based Framework for auto-Insurance Claim and Adjudication

Chuka Finbars Oham, Raja Jurdak , Salil S Kanhere, Ali Dorri, and Sanjay Jha

Blockchain-M8: Blockchain Applications II Session Chair: Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada

1. Improving the Process of Lending, Monitoring and Evaluating through Blockchain Technologies

Gladstone Arantes, José Almeida, Marcio Onodera, and Vanessa Almeida

2. Blockchained Post-Quantum Signatures

Konstantinos Chalkias, James Brown, Mike Hearn, Tommy Lillehagen, Igor Nitto, and Thomas Schroete

3. Multi-class Bitcoin-enabled Service Identification Based on Transaction History Summarization

Kentaroh Toyoda, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, and P. Takis Mathiopoulos

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Blockchain-S5: Blockchain Enforcement

Session Chair: Ujjwal Guin, Auburn University, United States

1. ComChain: Bridging the Gap Between Public and Consortium Blockchains

Guillaume Vizier, and Vincent Gramoli

2. A Practical Screening Method for Blockchain-based Systems

Yuki Kondo, Taku Shimosawa, and Satoshi Oshima

3. A Cybersecurity Case for the Adoption of Blockchain in the Financial Industry

Miroslav Kis and Bobby Singh

4. Blockchain Based Access Control Services

Damiano Di Francesco Maesa, Paolo Mori, and Laura Ricci

Blockchain-S6: Blockchain Platform

Session Chair: Chenxu Wang, Xian Jiaotong University, China

1. Sharing is Caring: Collaborative Analysis and Real-time Enquiry for Security Analytics

George Webster, Ryan Harris, Zachary Hanif, Bruce Hembree, Jens Grossklags, and Claudia Eckert

2. Blockchain access control Ecosystem for Big Data security

Uchi Uchibeke, Sara Kassani, Ralph Deters, and Kevin A. Schneider

3. Secure Credit Reporting on the Blockchainstem

Amir Kafshdar Goharshady, Ali Behrouz, and Krishnendu Chatterjee

Blockchain-S7: Smart Contract I Session Chair: Ujjwal Guin, Auburn University, United States

1. Applications of Smart-Contracts: Anonymous Decentralized Financial Events Derivative IoT Application

Omnia Mahmoud Abdelhamid Mohamed, Henning Kopp, Amr Talaat Abdel-Hamid, and Frank Kargl

2. Design Patterns for Smart Contracts in the Ethereum Ecosystem

Maximilian Wöhrer and Uwe Zdun

3. ReviewChain: Smart Contract Based Review System with Multi-blockchain Gateway

Ke Wang, Zhizhe Zhang, and Hyong Kim

Blockchain-S8: Smart Contract II Session Chair: Jin Wei, The University of Akron, United States

1. Secure Smart Contract System Built on SMPC Over Blockchain

Yan Zhu, Xiaoxu Song, Shuai Yang, Yao Qin, and Qiong Zhou

2. Bridging Paxos and Blockchain Consensus

Aleksey Charapko, Ailidani Ailijiang, and Murat Demirbas

3. Adjudicating Violations in Data Sharing Agreements Using Smart Contracts

Harsh Bimal Desai, Kevin Liu, Murat Kantarcioglu, and Lalana Kagal

4. E-Voting with Blockchain: An E-Voting Protocol with Decentralisation and Voter Privacy

Freya Sheer Hardwick , Apostolos Gioulis, Raja Naeem Akram, and Konstantinos Markantonakis

Blockchain-S9: Blockchain and IoT Session Chair: Jin Wei, The University of Akron, United States

1. A Survey on Blockchain-based Identity Management Systems for the Internet of Things

Xiaoyang Zhu and Youakim Badr

2. Internet of Blockchains: Techniques and Challenges Ahead

Hoang Tam Vo, Ziyuan Wang, Dileban Karunamoorthy, John Wagner, Ermyas Abebe, and Mukesh Mohania

3. Blockchain Tradeoffs and Challenges for Current and Emerg ing Applicat ions: Generalizat ion, Fragmentation,

Sidechains, and Scalability

Carl Worley and Anthony Skjellum

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 Blockchain-M9

(Room 102)

Blockchain-S10

(Room 103)

Blockchain-Poster

(Room 104)

Blockchain-SS-1

(Room 109)

14:50-15:50 Blockchain-M10 (Room 102) Blockchain-S11 (Room 103) Blockchain-SS-2 (Room 109)





Blockchain-M9: Blockchain Threat and Enhancement I

Session Chair: Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy

1. CBSigIDS: Towards Collaborative Blockchained Signature-based Intrusion Detection

Steven Tug, Weizhi Meng, and Yu Wang

2. Proposal of Proof-of-Lucky-ID (PoL) to Solve the Problems of PoW and PoS

Takeshi Ogawa, Hayato Kima, and Noriharu Miyaho

3. A Strong Adaptive Strategic Double-spending Attack on Blockchains

Gholamreza Ramezan, Cyril Leung, and Z. Jane Wang

4. IPchain: Securing IP Prefix Allocation and Delegation with Blockchain

Jordi Paillissé Vilanova, Miquel Ferriol, Eric Garcia, Hamid Latif, Carlos Piris, Albert Lopez, Brenden Kuerbis,

Alberto Rodriguez-Natal, Vina Ermagan, Fabio Maino, and Albert Cabellos

Blockchain-M10: Blockchain Threat and Enhancement II Session Chair: Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy

1. ChainChannels: Private Botnet Communication Over Public Blockchains

Davor Frkat, Robert Annessi, and Tanja Zseby

2. Economic Analyses of Security Investments on Cryptocurrency Exchanges

Benjamin Johnson, Aron Laszka, Jens Grossklags, and Tyler Moore

3. SolidWorx: A Resilient and Trustworthy Transactive Platform for Smart and Connected Communities

Scott Eisele, Aron Laszka, Anastasia Mavridou, and Abhishek Dubey

Blockchain-M11: Blockchain Security

Session Chair: Finbars Chuka Oham, University of New South Wales, Australia

1. Rethinking Blockchain Security: Position Paper

Vincent Chia, Pieter H. Hartel, Qingze Hum, Sebastian Ma, Georgios Piliouras, Daniel Reijsbergen, Mark van

Staalduinen, and Pawel Szalachowski

2. Hybrid Cryptographic Protocol for Secure Vehicle Data Sharing over a Consortium Blockchain

Kei-Léo Brousmiche, Antoine Durand, Thomas Heno, Christian Poulain, Antoine Dalmieres, and Elyes Ben

Hamida

3. Blockchain Based Delegatable Access Control Scheme for a Collaborative E-health Environment

Harsha S Gardiyawasam Pussewalage and Vladimir Oleshchuk

4. IPFS for Reduction of Chain Size in Ethereum

Robert Norvill, Beltran Fiz Pontiveros, Radu State, and Andrea Cullen

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Blockchain-M12: Blockchain Design

Session Chair: Abhishek Ray, Purdue University, United States

1. Routing Payments on the Lightning Network

Giovanni Di Stasi, Stefano Avallone, Roberto Canonico, and Giorgio Ventre

2. ZoKrates - Scalable Privacy-Preserving Off-Chain Computations

Jacob Eberhardt and Stefan Tai

3. A Cache Enhanced Endorser Design for Mitigating Performance Degradation in Hyperledger Fabric

Feng Lu, Lu Gan, Zhongli Dong, Wei Li, Hai Jin, and Albert Y. Zomaya

Blockchain-S10: Blockchain Protocol Design Session Chair: Ebrima N Ceesay, Johns Hopkins University & Noblis, USA

1. A Mechanism Design Approach to Blockchain Protocols

Abhishek Ray, Mario Ventresca, and Hong Wan

2. Building a Private Bitcoin-based Payment Network among Electric Vehicles and Charging Stations

Enes Erdin, Mumin Cebe, Kemal Akkaya, Senay Solak, Eyuphan Bulut, and Selcuk Uluagac

3. RFID Based Verifiable Ownership Transfer Protocol Using Blockchain Technology

Anandhi S, Anitha R, and Sureshkumar Venkatasamy

4. Erasure Code-Based Low Storage Blockchain Node

Doriane Perard, Jerome Lacan, Yann Bachy, and Jonathan Detchart

Blockchain-S11: Blockchain Privacy

Session Chair: Konstantinos Chalkias, R3, United Kingdom

1. Privacy-Preserving Searchable Encryption Framework for Permissioned Blockchain Networks

Shahzaib Tahir and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

2. Toward Privacy-Assured Health Insurance Claims

Xinchi He, Sarra Alqahtani, and Rose Gamble

3. Towards Anonymous, Unlinkable, and Confidential Transactions in Blockchain

Kalpana Singh, Nicolas Heulot, and Elyes Ben Hamida

Blockchain-S12: Blockchain Privacy and Trust Session Chair: Anthony Skjellum, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, United States

1. Building Trust & Protecting Privacy: Analyzing Evidentiary Quality in a Blockchain Proof-of-Concept for Medical

Research Data Consent Management

Darra Hofman, Karen Lam, Casey Shannon, Sara Assadian, Bruce McManus, Raymond Ng, and Victoria Lemieux

2. Study of Integrity and Privacy Requirements on Distributed Ledger Technologies

Sachiko Yoshihama and Shin Saito

3. A Case Study of Execution of Untrusted Business Process on Permissioned Blockchain

Vahid Pourheidari, Sara Rouhani, and Ralph Deters

4. Blockchain-based Supply Chain Traceability: Token Recipes model Manufacturing Processes

Martin Westerkamp, Friedhelm Victor, and Axel Küpper

Blockchain-S13: Blockchain Trust Management Session Chair: Anthony Skjellum, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, United States

1. LoC: Poverty Alleviation Loan Management System based on Smart Contracts

Chaonian Guo, Shenglan Ma, Hao Wang, Shuhan Cheng, and Tongsen Wang

2. MediChainTM: A Secure Decentralized Medical Data Asset Management System

Sara Rouhani, Luke Butterworth, Adam Simmons, Darryl Humphrey, and Ralph Deters

3. A Quantifiable Trust Model for Blockchain-based Identity Management

Andreas Grüner, Alexander Mühle, Tatiana Gayvoronskaya, and Christoph Meinel

4. Personalized Difficuklty Adjustment for Countering the Double-Spending Attack in Proof-of-Work Consensus

Protocols.

Chi-Ning Chou, Yu-Jing Lin, Ren Chen, Hsiu-Yao Chang, I-Ping Tu, and Shih-wei Liao

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Blockchain-Poster

1. On M2M Micropayments: A Case Study of Electric Autonomous Vehicles

Dragos Strugar, Rasheed Hussain, Manuel Mazzara, Victor Rivera, Jooyoung Lee, and Ruslan Mustafin

2. Analyzing Financial Smart Contracts for Blockchain

Muskan Vinayak , HarAmritPal Panesar, Saulo dos Santos, Ruppa K. Thulasiram, Parimala Thulasiraman, and

Srimantarao S. Appadoo

Blockchain-SS-1:

Session Chair: Finbars Chuka Oham, University of New South Wales, Australia

1. A Preliminary Research of Prediction Markets Based on Blockchain Powered Smart Contracts

Xiaochun Ni, Yong Yuan, Xiao Wang, Liwei Ouyang, and Feiyue Wang

2. Blockchain for Civil Engineering Practices in Smart Cities

Ronald Lam, Alvin Junus, Joseph Yiu Wing Mak , Louis Chi Hung Lam, and Peter Kai Kwong Lee

3. A Novel Heuristics for Validating Pairwise Transactions on Cryptocurrencies

Saulo dos Santos, Daniyal Khowaja, Muskan Vinayak , Ruppa K. Thulasiram, and Parimala Thulasiraman

4. BeatCoin: Leaking Private Keys from Air-Gapped Cryptocurrency Wallets

Mordechai Guri

Blockchain-SS-2:

Session Chair: Ebrima N Ceesay, Johns Hopkins University & Noblis, USA

1. V-Chain: A Blockchain-Based Car Lease Platform

Kwame Opuni-Boachie Obour Agyekum, Qi Xia, Emmanuel Boateng Sifah, Sandro Amofa, Kingsley Nketia

Acheampong, Jianbin Gao, Ruidong Chen, Hu Xia, James C. Gee, Xiaojiang Du, and Mohsen Guizani

2. BLIC: A Blockchain Protocol for Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management of ICs

Sumanta Bose, Mayank Raikwar, Debdeep Mukhopadhyayay, Anupam Chattopadhyay, and Kwok-Yan Lam

3. Deployment of a Blockchain-Based Self-Sovereign Identity

Quinten Stokkink and Johan Pouwelse

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The CIT 2018 Technical Program



13:30-14:50 CIT 1 (Room 106)

14:50-15:50 CIT 2 (Room 106)


16:05-17:25 CIT 3 (Room 106)

17:25-18:25 CIT 4 (Room 106)

CIT 1: Software Session Chair: Martin Serrano, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

1. Construction of a Software Measurement Tool Using Systematic Literature Review

Karine Valença, Edna Dias Canedo, and Rejane Maria da Costa Figueiredo

2. LSTM-Based Service Migration for Pervasive Cloud Computing

Haifeng Jing, Yafei Zhang, Jiehan Zhou, Weishan Zhang, Xin Liu, Guizhi Min, and Zhanmin Zhang

3. Application of Birth Defect Prediction Model Based on C5.0 Decision Tree Algorithm

Junmei Guo, Haiying Liu, Yizhong Luan, and Yun Wu

4. Detecting Vulnerable Java Classes Based on the Analysis of Java Library Call Graph

Hyosung Park, Chulwoo Park, SangBong Yoo, and Kichang Kim

CIT 2: Wireless Networks and Communications I Session Chair: Martin Serrano, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

1. ECPUB: An Energy Efficiency Evaluation Metric in Wireless Sensor Network

Yuxin Liu, Weidong Fang, Wuxiong Zhang, Weiwei Gao, Haiguang Chen, and Yuanyuan Zhu

2. On the Torus Pairwise Disjoint-Path Routing Problem

Antoine Bossard, and Keiichi Kaneko

3. PTMS: Poisson-based Trust Management System in Wireless Sensor Networks

Jin zhao, Weidong Fang, Hui Xu, Jufeng Luo, and Jifeng Huang

CIT 3: Systems Session Chair: Waqar Haque, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

1. Topological Response to Deadlock Detection and Resolution in Real-Time Database Systems

Waqar Haque, Adam Vezina, and Matthew Fontaine

2. A Collaborative Location Querying Method Based on Caching Information

Xin Lv, Juan Chen, Tao Zeng, and Chenglong Li

3. Evaluation on Applicability of Measurement-based Join Cost Calculation Method Using Different Generation CPUs

Tsuyoshi Tanaka, and Hiroshi Ishikawa

4. Non-Contact Method of Heart Rate Using a Webcam

Jin zhao, Jifeng Huang, Guoqing Jia, Xiaohong Ji, and Lianhai Shan

CIT 4: Security, Privacy, and Trust Session Chair: Waqar Haque, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

1. An Overview on the Applications and Safety Issues of Fog Computing

Fangming Bi, Xuzhi Miao, Wei Chen, Weidong Fang, Wuxiong Zhang, and Deyu Wang

2. A Robust Protocol for Circumventing Censoring Firewalls

Junlin Chen, and Uyen Trang Nguyen

3. A Novel Trust Management Scheme for Defending Against On-off Attack Based on Gaussian Distribution

Nan Zhou, Weidong Fang, Wuxiong Zhang, Xiaoxiao Lv, and Jifeng Huang

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 CIT 5 (Room 106)

14:50-15:50 CIT 6 (Room 106)


16:05-17:25 CIT 7 (Room 106)

17:25-18:25 CIT 8 (Room 106)


CIT 5: Image Processing Session Chair: Iker Gondra, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

1. A Novel Image Mosaic Method Based on Improved ORB and its Application in Police-UAV

Shuai Wang, Yingying Zhang, Wenshuang Wang, Yanqing Zhao, and Shiwei Zhu

2. Gray Image Reconstruction Algorithm Based lp Optimization for Sparse Representation

Haiying Liu, Junmei Guo, Fangzhou Xu, Lixia Deng, and Hui Zhang

3. Social Image Captioning with Visual Attention and User Attention

Yiwei Wei, Chunlei Wu, Xiaoliang Chu, Weishan Zhang, and Leiquan Wang

4. CANNY SLIC to Compute Content-Sensitive Superpixels

Yousef Abu Baker, and Iker Gondra

CIT 6: Machine learning

Session Chair: Iker Gondra, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

1. Concept Extraction: A Modular Approach to Extraction of Source Code Concepts

Ritu Chaturvedi, Veerpal Brar, Jai Geelal, and Kelvin Kong

2. Infinite Scaled Dirichlet Mixture Models for Spam Filtering Via Bayesian and Variational Bayes Learning

Fahd Aldosari, Sami Bourouis, Nizar Bouguila, Hassen Sallay, and Khalid M Jamil Khayyat

3. Method to Annotate Arrhythmias by Deep Network

Weijia Lu, Jie Shuai, Shuyan Gu, and Joel Xue

CIT 7: Pattern Recognition

Session Chair: Shuchih Ernest Chang, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

1. License Plate Recognition Based on Adaptive Threshold

Huiyuan Zhou, Shubo Qiu, Haiying Liu, and Chao Huang

2. Non-invasive Sleeping Posture Recognition and Body Movement Detection Based On RFID

Xiaoxuan Hu, Kagome Naya, Peng Li, Toshiaki Miyazaki, Kun Wang, and Yan-fei Sun

3. Domain Adaptation Transduction: An Algorithm for Autonomous Training with Applications to Activity Recognition

Using Wearable Devices

Yang Li, Yuanyuan Bao, and Wai Chen

4. DCNN Based Real-time Adaptive Ship License Plate Recognition (DRASLPR)

Weishan Zhang, Haoyun Sun, Jiehan Zhou, Xin Liu, Zhanmin Zhang, and Guizhi Min

CIT 8: Internet of Things

Session Chair: Haiying Liu, Qilu University of Technology, China

1. Automated Concept Extraction in Internet-of-Things

Yuanyuan Bao, and Wai Chen

2. Performance Evaluation of an IoV-Based Intersection Traffic Control Approach

Iman Saeed and Mourad Elhadef

3. Load Balancing in the Fog of Things Platforms Through Software-Defined Networking

Ernando Batista, Gustavo Figueiredo, Maycon Peixoto, Martin Serrano, and Cássio Prazeres

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12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:50 CIT 9 (Room 106)

14:50-15:50 CIT 10 (Room 106)


16:05-17:25 CIT 11 (Room 106)

CIT 9: Wireless Networks and Communications II Session Chair: Kichang Kim, Inha University, South Korea

1. Passive CH Election Avoidance Protocol and CH Routing Protocol in VANET

Ahmad Abuashour and Michel Kadoch

2. Research on Wireless Sensor Networks Routing Algorithms for Coal Mine Mobile Sensing

Wei Chen, Yuequn Wang, Ke Wang, Weidong Fang, Wuxiong Zhang, and Tao Pan

3. Energy-efficient Improvements in Mod-LEACH Protocol on Optimal Cluster Heads Selection

Zhenpeng Pang, Wuxiong Zhang, Shenghu Wang, Jufeng Luo, and Haiguang Chen

CIT 10: Future Networks and Communications Session Chair: Kichang Kim, Inha University, South Korea

1. Quality of Service Aware Dynamic BBU-RRH Mapping Based on Load Prediction Using Markov Model in C-RAN

Mostafa Mouawad, Zbigniew Dziong, and Muhammad Khan

2. Content Placement Aware Cache Decision: A Caching Policy Based on the Content Replacement Rat io for

Information-Centric Network

Paulo Sena Ferreira Filho, Antônio Jorge Gomes Abelém, and Igor Furtado Carvalho

3. Exploiting Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Software Defined Radios

Seth Hitefield, Michael Fowler, and Charles Clancy

CIT 11: Emerging Applications

Session Chair: Quan Qi, University of Hull, UK

1. Thin Implicit Utah Teapot: Design for Additive Manufacturing

Quan Qi and Qingde Li

2. Exploring Blockchain Technology for Capital Markets: A Case of Angel Fund

Shuchih Chang and Siao Yin He

3. Revisiting Industry 4.0 with Case Study

Jiangning Chen and Jiehan Zhou

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Organizing Committees of Cybermatics 2018

General Chairs

Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada

Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Jason Gu, Dalhousie University, Canada

Program Chairs

Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University, Canada

Sam Tak Wu Kwong, City University of Hong Kong, China

Lin Zhang, Beihang University, China

Summit Chairs

Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA

Sachiko Yoshihama, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan

Steering Chairs

Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Organizing Committees of iThings 2018

General Chairs

Qiang Ye, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada

Srinivas Sampalli, Dalhousie University, Canada

Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy

Program Chairs

Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Megumi Kaneko, National Institution of Informatics, Japan

Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institution of Technology, Japan

Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada

Workshop and Special Session Chairs

Leo Y. Zhang, Deakin University, Australia

Tie Qiu, Tianjin University, China

Neal N. Xiong Northeastern State University, USA

Steering Chairs



Publicity Chairs

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh

Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia

Web Publication Chair

Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Registration System Chair

Sazzad Hussain, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Organizing Committees of GreenCom 2018

General Chairs

Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, China

Lian Zhao, Ryerson University, Canada

Program Chairs

Jun Cai, University of Manitoba, Canada

Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Program Vice Chairs

Deniz Gündüz, Imperial College London, UK

Wenbo He, McMaster University, Canada

Himal A. Suraweera, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Executive Chairs

Jason Rhinelander, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Xianjun Deng, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada/University of South China, China

Workshop Chair

Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Qatar

Steering Committee

Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Jinsong Wu, University de Chile, Chile


Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Honggang Zhang, Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) & Supelec/IETR, France

Publicity Chair

Sheng Zhou, Tsinghua University, China

Publication Chair

Hongbin Liang, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Web Management Chair




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Organizing Committees of CPSCom 2018

General Chairs

Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University, USA

Qinghua Zheng, Xian Jiaotong University, China

General Co-Chairs

Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy

Program Chairs

Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA

Zhen Ni, South Dakota State University, USA

Program Co-Chairs

Nian Zhang, University of District of Columbia, USA

Stefano Squartini, Marche Polytechnic, Italy

Program Vice Chairs

Kehua Guo, Central South University, China

Lei Ren, Beihang University, China

Hu Zhu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Lianyong Qi, Qufu Normal University, China

Executive Chairs

Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Nenggan Zheng, Zhejiang University, China

Workshop and Special Session Chairs

Helen Li, Duke University, USA

Xiang Chen, George Mason University, USA

Jason Xue, City University of Hong Kong, China

Publicity Chair

Bei Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Web Chair




Steering Chairs



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Organizing Committees of SmartData 2018

Steering Chairs

Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China


General Chairs

Jason Gu, Dalhousie University, Canada

Carson K. Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

Ladjel Bellatreche, ISAE - ENSMA, France

Program Chairs

Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada


Ching-Hsien Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan

Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research America, USA

Workshop/Special Session Chair

Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research - Australia, Australia

Publicity Chairs

Wookey Lee, Inha University, South Korea

Junqiang Liu, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China

Elio Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Italy

Kazutoshi Sumiya, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

Publication Chair

Min-Yuh Day, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Web Chair




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Organizing Committees of Blockchain 2018

General Chairs

Vijay Varadharajan, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Dinesh C. Verma, IBM, USA

Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland

Program Chairs

Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA

Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China

Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Special Session and Workshop Chairs

Xin Huang, University of Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool, China

Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia

Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada

Hongsheng Zhou, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Bhaskar Krishnamachari, University of Southern California, USA

Susan Cheng, George Washington University, USA

Steering Committee

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA


Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada

Fenghua Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Wenjing Lou, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

Vijay Varadharajan, University of Newcastle, Australia

Chonggang Wang, InterDigital, USA

Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Zheng Yan (Chair), Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland

Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Qinghua Zheng, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Publicity Chairs

Entao Luo, Hunan university of Science and Engineering, China

Wei Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Xueqin Liang, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland

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Organizing Committees of CIT 2018

General Chairs

Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada

Victor C. M. Leung, University of British Columbia, Canada

Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Canada

Program Chairs

Chunsheng Zhu, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Dinesh Verma, IBM, USA

Guangjie Han, Dalian University of Technology, China

Han Hu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Program Vice Chairs

Jiehan Zhou, University of Oulu, Finland

Nikolaos Thomos, University of Essex, UK

Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, China and TELECOM SudParis, France

Weishan Zhang, China University of Petroleum, China

Executive Chairs

Jason Rhinelander, Saint Mary's University, Canada

Minghua Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada and University of South China, China

Workshop Chairs

Gongliang Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Kenji Kanai, Waseda University, Japan

Yongyi Ran, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA

Publicity Chairs

Wei Chen, China University of Mining and Technology, China

Zhi Liu, Shizuoka University, Japan

Yipeng Zhou, University of South Australia, Australia

Weidong Fang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Web Chair


Steering Committee

Daming Wei (Chair), University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan

Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA

Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea

Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan

Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan

Xingang Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK

George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China

Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China and Aalto University, Finland

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Conference Venue

Halifax Convention Center

1650 Argyle Street, Halifax, NS, Canada B3J 0E6 https://www.halifaxconventioncentre.com/

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Travel Guide to the Conference Venue Via Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)

After you arrive at Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ), you can take the shuttle bus or taxi from airport to

conference venue or conference hotels. Book reservations for airport shuttle, taxi, sedans and limousine service to and from the airport from the following

link: https://www.airportshuttles.com/halifax.php

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